Talk:Polity data series

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But what does "scoring an 8" even mean? I couldn't easily find anything on the Polity project site either. -- — Northgrove 23:32, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

This Graphic is in my opinion not very useful. The growth in democratic states is indeed growing like shown, but it gives the impression that all states are now democratic. Max numbers of states should be the real actual max number of states. This would show that 1/3 of the states score with 8 or more out of 10 points. Even more useful would be the average democracy, autocracy, and anocracy scores as seen in several scientific publications. Emile le reveil (talk) 15:37, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

My critical entry about the Polity data was changed to this, which is vaugue, and not too grammatical: "A paper discussing claiming problems with democracy rankings including Polity can be found here." So I'll have to revert it but I'll incorporate some of the changes.Giovanni33 (talk) 18:15, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

More correct description of paper. Removed "discussing".Ultramarine (talk) 04:33, 13 April 2008 (UTC)