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Would be cool for the "Equality Index" to be 2 or multi dimensional. I feel like laws on adoption, gender/sex change, age of consent, blood donations, marriage etc. fall on the absolute/objective liberty spectrum. While stuff like anti-discrimination laws, housing policies, conversion therapy bans etc are interventionist regulations. Also needs more categories/granularity. http://get.lgbt you should get one :D
> Any Country Off the top of my head, where's Japan and China?
Of course, I can just keep using right click -> Inspect Element :)
> Any Country Off the top of my head, where's Japan and China?
Or just visit http://equaldex.com/region/china or http://equaldex.com/region/japan and compare from the sidebar there.
> Any Country Off the top of my head, where's Japan and China?
I can't even find my own home, although people do like to debate whether it is a country, state or province.
On the 'comparison' pages, the Equality Index score is listed as a horizontal bar chart, which makes at-a-glance comparison impossible. If you need to keep it as a bar, please consider making them vertical, so you can easily compare visually. Currently, I'm only able to compare that score based on color, so places with the same color aren't comparable on that metric. Personally, I'd prefer if you just put your number…
Regarding it being represented as a number, I originally wanted to include that, however, the way the Equality Index is calculated is pretty rudimentary. Creating a number representing the "amount of equality" people have is going to be pretty arbitrary, especially without enough public opinion data. Eventually, once it becomes more sophisticated/accurate, and I include more data points and surveys, maybe I will reconsider. For now, I purposely left it as an unlabeled bar so that it's a little clearer that it's a "rough visualization."
Why, for "Conversion therapy", being banned is the best status possible, according to this website?
I think it comes down to a game theory style argument. Most people who would undergo this would do so unwillingly by pressure from family, religion, etc. and face large downsides. The small minority that actually desires to do this are hurt by making it illegal, but the large majority that would otherwise be coerced into it are spared. Many laws banning sexual practices are more justifiable under such laws. If societ…
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I can't even find my own home, although people do like to debate whether it is a country, state or province.
What country is that? Every country is included on the site, however, provinces aren't always available for the more minor countries.