Valentine Z wrote:As requested, Environmental Beauty (EB) vs Economic Freedom (EF)! Interesting trends all around, let's get to it!
So... what can we see here? The data collected would indicate that there are just a lot more capitalist (EF > 0) nations than the socialist ones, at least going by the Rand Index. Apart from the outlier being Tzo (the one with 22580.84 on EB), there are a fair share of capitalist and socialist nations with good or bad environments. With that said, the more socialist countries (negative EF) tends to work better with the EB, attributing to perhaps not letting the businesses trash the place too hard. It's all about being moderate for these two trends. Don't be too free, or too communist either. If you are too free, chances are good that you are letting businesses do whatever they want with little to no care for the environments. The socialist ones fare better, but they will drop their EB if their EF gets a little too low. Not as much as 100 EF nations, so the -100 EF nations can do well.
Here's a better Log-Linear graphs of the Socialist and Capitalist nations, separately.
Socialist (-100 <= EF <= 0).
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Capitalist (0 <= EF <= 100)
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The cluster of High EB nations peaks at a higher value for Capitalist nations than Socialist nations. Excluding outliers, the highest EB socialist nations (between -90.0 and -60.0 EF) peak at ~5000, while the highest EB capitalist nations (between 20.0 and 40.0 EF) peak at ~7000. The higher EB nations are statistically more likely to have market-based economies and not central planning. Although within each group, higher EF is correlated with lower EB.