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[personal profile] simont Sun 2012-08-12 08:27
Yes, that is unfortunately the problem with per-head or per-dollar-GDP systems; they seem a fairer way in principle to judge merit irrespective of size, but when countries get down to the point where the expected rate of medal-winning is a fraction of a medal per Olympics they develop the problem that the interesting parts of the table are composed of noise rather than signal...
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