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Post by keanzu » Sat, Feb 01, 2020, 12:50 PM UTC

Post by 1hakr » Sat, Feb 01, 2020, 12:52 PM UTC

sersi wrote: post #30

Not sure about the accuracy. France says locals hostile at 33% while Russia only has locals hostile at 17% and locals hostile at 0% in Singapore...Oh and locals hostile at 17% in Saudi Arabia!!! I'd say those numbers are totally wrong. This is the kind of project where hacking a quick solution together could lead to bad consequences so care should be taken with the numbers you give. I wonder if this is because of how…

Post by lawlorino » Sat, Feb 01, 2020, 12:55 PM UTC

1hakr wrote: post #26

lawlorino wrote: post #24

Personally I'd like to see more information and transparency about how the ratings are calculated and where the data is coming from for me to put faith in the website and methodology, since that's the whole premise. For example what does X% discrimination or persecution actually mean? How is that quantified and why is it a percentage? Edit: another thing that doesn't give me confidence in the website are the frequent…

I got the actual data from https://spartacus.gayguide.travel/blog/spartacus-gay-travel-... I just made it a percent to make it easy to compare and understand.

Post by keanzu » Sat, Feb 01, 2020, 12:56 PM UTC

sersi wrote: post #30

Not sure about the accuracy. France says locals hostile at 33% while Russia only has locals hostile at 17% and locals hostile at 0% in Singapore...Oh and locals hostile at 17% in Saudi Arabia!!! I'd say those numbers are totally wrong. This is the kind of project where hacking a quick solution together could lead to bad consequences so care should be taken with the numbers you give. I wonder if this is because of how…

Post by 1hakr » Sat, Feb 01, 2020, 1:00 PM UTC

keanzu wrote: post #38

sersi wrote: post #30

Not sure about the accuracy. France says locals hostile at 33% while Russia only has locals hostile at 17% and locals hostile at 0% in Singapore...Oh and locals hostile at 17% in Saudi Arabia!!! I'd say those numbers are totally wrong. This is the kind of project where hacking a quick solution together could lead to bad consequences so care should be taken with the numbers you give. I wonder if this is because of how…

The source data [1] shows Saudi Arabia as -2 on a scale of 0 to -2 for locals hostile. They also note "Some of the most dangerous countries for LGBT travelers in 2019 include again Saudi Arabia, Iran, Somalia and the Chechen Republic in Russia, where homosexuals are widely persecuted and threatened with death." [2] so maybe there's a second source being used or there's a data conversion issue. [1] https://spartacus.g…