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5 Post author: Dr_Manhattan 01 August 2012 08:49PM

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Comment author: shokwave 02 August 2012 10:58:28AM 3 points [-]

I don't see how number of patents is correlated with science culture.

Comment author: ChristianKl 02 August 2012 04:22:19PM -2 points [-]

Do you actually mean what you just said?

How many patent get registered in Africa? How many patent get registered in Western nations? Which group has the better science culture?

See there's your correlation. The fact that a correlation exist should be really easy to see.

Comment author: ewang 02 August 2012 05:28:23PM 3 points [-]

Similarly, internet usage is indirectly correlated with life expectancy, although the correlation isn't anywhere near strong enough to make reasonable judgments of one from the other.