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Originally Posted by adam
Is it really fair to compare medal counts for a country like USA with over 300 million people and Norway with under 5 million?
And so I present to you the medals / 1 million people column as of Feb 27th...
Norway has the most medals per capita BY FAR!
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One of the flaw of using medals per capita is that even though the population is higher, but there is still a limited amount of atheletes that a nation can sent into an olympic event. Take curling as an example, if there's 1 good team in Norway and there are 64 teams in USA (by population) that's as good as the Norwegian team, does the chance for USA winning a gold medal 64 times higher compared to Norway? No, since the event is limited to 1 team per nation, the chances is about equal.