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TheOtherDave comments on Is a Purely Rational World a Technologically Advanced World? - Less Wrong Discussion

-3 Post author: tygorton 20 May 2012 04:40AM

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 20 May 2012 09:32:49PM 1 point [-]

I'm not sure even what th first steps would be in making an estimate for that.

Correlating recorded disease rates with recorded horses per capita would be a place to start, though of course there are many confounding factors.