Equation 30 · Part 2 · Forty Million Clicks Through One Uneven Door
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What this part means
The expressions on both sides represent the same quantity under the stated assumptions.
Its job in the formula
The equals sign connects the complete expression on the left with the complete expression on the right. Both sides must have compatible units.
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The passage around this formula
This is a DERIVED quantity, not a measurement: it has not been run against real per-country population totals or the actual SharedResponsesSurvey.csv microdata, and no value of for any real country is claimed here. What can be computed honestly, using only the paper’s own reported extremes for n — 101 respondents at the low end, 448,125 at the high end [ 1 ] — is how small would need to be, at illustrative (not dataset-matched) population scales, to produce a cross-country divergence of = 0.1 , a magnitude in the range visible between clusters in the paper’s own Fig. 3b radar plot. For a nation of order 10^{6} residents sampled at n=101 : f …
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An equals sign says that the expression on its left and the expression on its right have the same value under the stated definitions and assumptions.
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Sources cited in the surrounding passage
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