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Australia still beats UK in Olympics…

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…if you account for the relative worth of medals won and the Gross National Income (purchasing power parity adjusted) of the countries. Puts Australian’s being “beaten” by Britain in context.

Unsurprisingly Jamaica does best of all. Here’s the table as cooked up by the number crunchers at Crooked Timber:

Here’s the Crooked Timber post.

Written by Ronan

September 3rd, 2008 at 4:26 pm

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Where is the prize?

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Mayd quikh wit fotoshop

Visual noise is made with the help of Photoshop, thank you internet Pirates, I owe you.

Written by Ronan

September 3rd, 2008 at 12:34 am

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