Thanks, my immediate reaction to the article was that data normalization was not done. Now with normalized numbers, how 'bout that Swedish nepotism? :)
Re:Which country has the best brains?
by bpodgursky on Friday October 08, 2010 @02:18PM
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To be completely correct, you'd need to normalize the prizes over the population of each country at the time each prize was awarded, since population growth (or decline, for germany) patterns are not the same for each of those countries.
US 1.05; UK 1.91; Germany 1.25; France: 0.91; Sweden 3.04
The ordering is very different from the BBC's (12345 -> 52314). I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that you get quite a different top 5 this way too.