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fred_fotch t1_j1g9zbq wrote

Causation might be going the other way. Places with high GDPs have more money to fund science. Qatar and other oil countries being the prime example.

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SerialStateLineXer t1_j1hmqeu wrote

Definitely. Since scientific papers are released internationally and every country is able to benefit from the discoveries, it doesn't make sense for differences in scientific output to be driving differences in economic development.

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Javerlin t1_j1h7cp5 wrote

Fully agree. As is typical of data is beautiful, there’s a lot of bad data analytics practice here.

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