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It would have been interesting to use a log-log approach, to adjust for the effects of small population sizes in some countries in europe when it comes to notable people(by definition they are fairly rare relative to other people). Emil used it in the mental sports paper(researchgate.net/public…), and I've done some analsyis with the Nat…
It would have been interesting to use a log-log approach, to adjust for the effects of small population sizes in some countries in europe when it comes to notable people(by definition they are fairly rare relative to other people). Emil used it in the mental sports paper(https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331859319_Is_National_Mental_Sport_Ability_a_Sign_of_Intelligence_An_Analysis_of_the_Top_Players_of_12_Mental_Sports), and I've done some analsyis with the Nature Index generally showing it as a superior measure to deal with nonlinearly etc(correlates at 0.85 with national IQ). A historical analysis of literacy and (especially) numeracy(age heaping, which seems to precede literacy, have a decent disconection from it, and be less influenced by formal schooling) would also be interesting to see(would expect a decent correlation, especially given that N-S and W-E differences in these cognitive skills are hundreds of years old( Quantifying Quantitative Literacy:Age Heaping and the History of Human Capital).