Comment on Our US friends see the Olympic Medal table differently
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 3 months agoThat would be a really interesting metric.
America get one medal per every 9,008,108people
Australia gets one medal per 1,444,444 people
China is one medal per 58,833,333 people
So Australia is doing pretty well. I can’t be bothered doing it for any more countries right now though
Nath@aussie.zone 3 months ago
I played with something like “medals per capita” once during the London Olympics. When you put them into that metric, Australia definitely punches above its weight, but I think New Zealand did even better.
hitmyspot@aussie.zone 3 months ago
So that’s objectively a worse measure then. We need a measure where were the best. Not NZ, not UK and not China or USA.
How about medals divided by average population density inversed, lol.