I do think it's worth dividing countries into two fuzzy sets based on clusters of correlating variables.
I think this where I fundamentally differ. It seems to me that a set of countries which contains, to pick a random example, both India and the Democratic Republic of Congo (two countries which are completely different politically, historically, economically and culturally) is just too amorphous to be a useful analytical tool.
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Date: 2009-01-22 03:11 pm (UTC)I think this where I fundamentally differ. It seems to me that a set of countries which contains, to pick a random example, both India and the Democratic Republic of Congo (two countries which are completely different politically, historically, economically and culturally) is just too amorphous to be a useful analytical tool.