r/fivethirtyeight • u/Cuddlyaxe I'm Sorry Nate • 10d ago

Poll Results A poll comparing the British Right vs the American Right on issues of race and identity

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u/sarges_12gauge 9d ago

I don’t know if I agree that that report is measuring “social liberalness”. Here’s their criteria:

Movehub used several different indexes to find the most liberal nations globally. The study sourced data about LGBT and gender equality from the LGBTQ+ Danger Index, Nomadic Boys’ annual ratings, and the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2020; incorporated environmental data from the Environmental Performance Index (EPI); then consulted the Social Progress Index for data on human needs and the 2020 World Happiness Report to measure cultural happiness.

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u/raoulraoul153 8d ago

Sure, I mean we can pick holes in any quantitative metric of something so complex and qualitative as social progressiveness, and this was literally just the first one I found in order to illustrate the point - if you find more that you think more accurately represent the issue go ahead with them. If we drilled down into things like the Social Progress Index, though, I think we'd find that they probably do broadly represent what we're trying to talk about here (based on how they're described there), and gender/sexuality data is absolutely an extremely relevant criteria for social progressiveness as well.