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Originally Posted by AmateurFlix
Now should you consider population of the donors or not?
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if you want to find out how much a country is giving per citizen on average...yes..
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Should you consider the other economic trends (recession, growth) of the donors or not?
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No...not if you're doing a per capita statistic
if you're doing GDP however:
GDP = consumption + investment + exports - imports
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Originally Posted by AmateurFlix
If you're not going by an absolute measure like total dollar value (or so you don't get hung up on that then some other absolute value such as quickness of delivery, etc) then you're trying to measure it in relative terms.
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sure...the whole point here is to put it in relative terms so you can compare two countries with different population...
No we're not considering growth...nor recession... because...that's not the point...
The point here is to know how much countries give to charity PER CAPITA....which makes sense since it takes the population size into consideration..
OR expressing it as a % of their GDP..which takes the Gross Domestic Product into consideration...
now since the 2 arent base around the same variable (population VS. Gross Domestic Product), they won't yield the same results...however...USA still come up far from first in the two cases...
sure there are other variables to consider...
but these 2 ways at least try to take SOME variables into consideration...to compare 2 different countries...while you only take the total dollar ammount and don't consider a single variable...
Are you trying to render ALL stats based on GDP useless with your little arguement, for the simple facts that "there might be other variables to consider"??