- 14 Mar 2024 17:25
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If you want to find out what makes people good parents, then you need to look at good parents and bad parents.
Similarly if you want to know why countries are rich, it makes sense to compare them with poor ones.
So if you want to look at the difference between a current first world country and a third world country, as I was originally asked, it would make sense to look at the UK versus Jamaica, for example.
There is a crack in everything,
That's how the light gets in...
Truth To Power wrote:Lots of colonies vs no colonies?
Because they do not test the hypothesis. If you want to find out if men or women make better parents, you don't look at people with no kids, and if you want to find out what makes countries rich, you don't look at poor countries. Not rocket science.
If you want to find out what makes people good parents, then you need to look at good parents and bad parents.
Similarly if you want to know why countries are rich, it makes sense to compare them with poor ones.
So if you want to look at the difference between a current first world country and a third world country, as I was originally asked, it would make sense to look at the UK versus Jamaica, for example.
There is a crack in everything,
That's how the light gets in...