After using the World Happiness Report and Google's IPv6 penetration statistics, I found a correlation of 0.4648. So, what does this number mean?
- In statistics, correlation is measured on a scale of -1 to 1.
- 0 means no relationship.
- 1 means a perfect relationship.
- -1 means the variables are inversely proportional.
- A value of 0.4648 is considered a moderate correlation. The two data points move together with some frequency, but not identically.
- Since it's a positive number (+0.4648), the relationship is direct.
- This means that the higher the percentage of IPv6 penetration in a country, the higher its happiness score tends to be.
Don't believe me? Look at the graph below.
What does the graph tell us?
It shows that countries that manage to exceed 40% or 60% of native IPv6 adopters almost never have critically low happiness levels (few score below 5).
Yes, I know it sounds crazy, but it was a fun exercise.
What do you think?
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[1] World Happiness Report: 'https://files.worldhappiness.report/WHR26_Data_Figure_2.1.xlsx?_gl=1*zmm7kk*_gcl_au*MzI5Nzg1NTM4LjE3Nzg5NTQ3Mjk.'
[2] Google IPv6 stats: 'https://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/ipv6/statistics/data/worldmap.js'
[3] Available in google colab here: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1G8-KObej157c75lNl8kGzywWkBh1VhoW#scrollTo=87c9d1a2
