• chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    26 days ago

    The Human Freedom Index measures the degree of freedom in 165 countries using 86 indicators of economic and personal freedom.

    Why is it useless

    Edit: after looking at this some more it seems like there are probably some ideological biases in what is considered relevant to freedom here

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      25 days ago

      Because taking that index and looking at the 2 years where we had peak restrictions for humans because of covid seems kinda picky. If you have a index like that it probably makes sense to compare it over longer timespans like 10 years.

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        25 days ago

        Checked the full data, it went down compared to 2000 aswell. But to me some of the data doesnt add up. Also the source has the numbers from the title from 2019 to 2022, not 2020 to 2022.