Now this one is a bit misleading, apparently the scale matters. Here's an alternative.
@FailForward @freemo
Now what is the delta between this GDP correlation and COVID outbreak if any?
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You will find strong correlation with population density (or anything that is dependent on population density without being normalized) and almost anything. It is the reason why in statistics we **always** normalize and if you dont then its simply useless data.
This is where so much political bad-data to argue an agenda comes from. You'll notice it all the time when someone tries to argue political policies particularly bad ones.
@freemo @FailForward
For the sake of anyone passing by reading this, how would one normalize such data?
Depends on the nature of the data and how its represented. The most trivial form and the one that would apply in this case is by represented data per-capita rather than absolute..
So instead of saying "In place X there are Y people affected" you would say "In place X there are Y out of every 1000 people affected"
In essence you sample the percentage of the local population affected rather than the count.
This can be much more complex however in certain situations, but thats the main jist of it.
Actually correlates well with population density. No surprise there. More people, more GDP per capita.