Observed arrival · 2026-10-18
PlaceStats: Correlations, With Wealth Taken Into Account
PlaceStats explores whether relationships between country and US county statistics persist after accounting for factors that can make measures appear linked.
- For
- People checking cross-country statistical claims
- Worth noticing
- Its example table pairs raw and income-controlled correlations, including country counts for each comparison.
Field notes
The homepage defines correlation and explains how national income can make unrelated measures appear connected. It describes comparing countries at similar GDP per person, accounting for neighboring-country resemblance, and adjusting for the testing of many pairs. Navigation also exposes matrix, lag, indicator, structure, methodology, and glossary sections; the extract shows example findings but does not identify the underlying data sources or their dates.
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