Website review: World Freedom Atlas
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•27 reviews since Sep 26, 2007
geography, politics, maps
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brettjor rated 9 months ago- The idea is great, visualizations are a wonderful way to show information. The lack of information, the difficulty in knowing exactly what the legend is showing you, and having bold colors represent something good in one map and something bad in another make it frustrating. Korzybski's, "the map is not the teritory" is very apt here. The map is only visualizing the data, but if I can't then go see the data, understand how it was collected, and form my own opinions about it, then I can't really use the information. I understand that most ofd us look at the map only, call it good, and move on, but when you want to understand it, you have to give more. It's kinda like me saying, Norway kicks butt. If you don't know why I came up with that, it really doesn't mean anything.
- stumbledvd rated 9 months ago
- Excellent site with an atlas with stats regarding freedom in each country.
- nicklinn rated 9 months ago
- @Monkshovel: The map graphs data by some 30 NGOs, many of them including the World Bank and Freedom House are of US origin and are very "Pro-US". There is no original Data there.
@Greenchair: There is a heck of a lot more to freedom then taxes. Of course if taxes are all that matter to you, you could always hold up a bank and live in tax free paradise for 5-10. Besides Canada's income taxes are lower then the US for all but the lowest braket:
http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tax/individuals/faq/taxrates-e.html
v.s.
http://www.moneychimp.com/features/tax_brackets.htm
But please don't let facts get in the way of your rant. - @Monkshovel: The map graphs data by some 30 NGOs, many of them including the World Bank and Freedom House are of US origin and are very "Pro-US". There is no original Data there.
- michaeldnelson rated 9 months ago
- Awesome GIS type application showing political geography data across the globe. The rationale for scoring individual countries is not totally revealed, but its interesting nonetheless.
- Monkshovel rated 9 months ago
- A "Euro-centric socialist"( from greenchair's review ) statement if you look at it closely. It is obviously written and programed by liberal minded euro-trash...and as always pointedly anti-American in some shape or form!
- DannyAndNina rated 9 months ago
- an impressive array of information about the world's countries presented in an intuitive, interesting format
- cindra24 rated 10 months ago
- This would come in handy for a report.
- AELLOPas rated 10 months ago
- US is not as great as this makes it to be.
- maine-iac01 rated 10 months ago
- Interesting. It still seems somewhat political. Who are the makers of this map? Who knows what groups support them?
- greenchair rated 10 months ago
- False. Canada, Great Britain, France, Norway, Sweden, Finland etc. all have higher political rights scores than the United States? Impossible; they are all socialist nations who tax the populace far more than the US does. High levels of taxation cannot and does not result in more political rights; exactly the opposite in fact. Clearly, whoever wrote this is a Eurocentric socialist who has no idea what individual rights entail.
