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Equation 2 · Part 1 · Forty Million Clicks Through One Uneven Door

Symbol β

β=0.53\beta = 0.53
β\beta

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β is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.

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β is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.

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…its rule-of-law score, and its economic inequality: an ordinary least-squares regression across the 56 countries with full covariate data finds individualism predicting the preference for sparing more characters at β\beta = 0.88 , rule of law predicting the preference for sparing the lawful at β\beta = 0.53 , and Gini inequality predicting the preference for sparing higher-status characters at β\beta = 0.32 , all reported as statistically distinguishable from zero [ 1 , 9 ] . Both results are treated as…

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