Showing both numbers on the blue bars makes this really confusing, as that looks like a fraction. The same fraction, incidentally, is then shown in the red bars.
The blue bars are just a ranking of medals won by the different nations, if anyone else is confused.
Considering the number of medals available to athletes in different sports varies quite a bit, I wonder what this would look like adjusted to account for that
Maybe I’m dumb but I can’t make sense of this. Can we get an explanation?
Are you counting teams as one athlete?
I get what you’re going for, but a fraction is not the way to represent the blue number. 2/9 is far greater than 29/594 but the latter bar is way higher.
Medals/athletes is the exact same number as medals per athlete.
Cool. I like the per athlete metric. A way for smaller countries to show pride. For the bigger guys it could serve the purpose of adding to the debate of who had the “best” Olympics, but overall medal count is the jewel. Thanks for sharing.
Alright lets take a look and compare
> Medals per Athlete
Vs
> Medals / Athletes
Germany showing a startling lack of efficiency
This seems odd to include athletes in events that haven’t awarded medals yet.
Plus to count all gymnast, but only count their medal as one seems goofy.
Perhaps once the games are complete it will be a bit better…since it would eliminate one of the issues. But the other would still remain.
This graph greatly favors countries in which all their athletes have already finished participating.
No, this isn’t a fair metric either, because a low denominator improves your score, but qualifying fewer athletes is less impressive (so it shouldn’t *improve* your score). I don’t know exactly how qualification works, but it isn’t like Kosovo could have chosen to send 594 athletes.
As someone else pointed out, medals per capita of the country’s population is the proper way to balance it.
Should be as a percentage of total population.
Medals per capita would be a better measure of how a country is competing, IMO.
Outliers seem to be smaller/poorer countries where I imagine you’re only getting funding if you’re pretty much guaranteed a medal. So you end up with small teams of high medal chance individuals.
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Showing both numbers on the blue bars makes this really confusing, as that looks like a fraction. The same fraction, incidentally, is then shown in the red bars.
The blue bars are just a ranking of medals won by the different nations, if anyone else is confused.
Considering the number of medals available to athletes in different sports varies quite a bit, I wonder what this would look like adjusted to account for that
Maybe I’m dumb but I can’t make sense of this. Can we get an explanation?
Are you counting teams as one athlete?
I get what you’re going for, but a fraction is not the way to represent the blue number. 2/9 is far greater than 29/594 but the latter bar is way higher.
Medals/athletes is the exact same number as medals per athlete.
Cool. I like the per athlete metric. A way for smaller countries to show pride. For the bigger guys it could serve the purpose of adding to the debate of who had the “best” Olympics, but overall medal count is the jewel. Thanks for sharing.
Alright lets take a look and compare
> Medals per Athlete
Vs
> Medals / Athletes
Germany showing a startling lack of efficiency
This seems odd to include athletes in events that haven’t awarded medals yet.
Plus to count all gymnast, but only count their medal as one seems goofy.
Perhaps once the games are complete it will be a bit better…since it would eliminate one of the issues. But the other would still remain.
This graph greatly favors countries in which all their athletes have already finished participating.
No, this isn’t a fair metric either, because a low denominator improves your score, but qualifying fewer athletes is less impressive (so it shouldn’t *improve* your score). I don’t know exactly how qualification works, but it isn’t like Kosovo could have chosen to send 594 athletes.
As someone else pointed out, medals per capita of the country’s population is the proper way to balance it.
Should be as a percentage of total population.
Medals per capita would be a better measure of how a country is competing, IMO.
Outliers seem to be smaller/poorer countries where I imagine you’re only getting funding if you’re pretty much guaranteed a medal. So you end up with small teams of high medal chance individuals.