{"id":3557,"date":"2012-04-07T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=3557"},"modified":"2012-04-07T00:06:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T04:06:34","slug":"what-do-rich-countries-do-differently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/what-do-rich-countries-do-differently\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do Rich Countries Do Differently?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/040612_2057_WhatDoRichC1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Casey Johnston reports that researchers have used Google search analytics to see if there&#8217;s a difference between the types of things people from rich and poor countries search for, believing that it might reveal something about their mindset. The researchers came up with a measure called the &#8220;future orientation index&#8221; highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>People from countries with higher GDPs are more likely to enter search terms related to the upcoming year.<\/li>\n<li>People from countries with lower GDPs are more likely to enter search terms related to the year that went past.<\/li>\n<li>This suggests that countries that have people that have a future oriented mindset tend to do economically better than those who don&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li>The United States is an outlier \u2013 it has a high GDP but a low score on the future orientation index.<\/li>\n<li>According to the measure Canada, the United States and Japan have the brightest futures ahead of them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read about the methodology of the study, what the index tells us about Italy and Russia, and some criticisms of the study click <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/news\/2012\/04\/google-trends-reveals-clues-about-the-mentality-of-richer-nations.ars\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/news\/2012\/04\/google-trends-reveals-clues-about-the-mentality-of-richer-nations.ars\">Arstechnica<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casey Johnston reports that researchers have used Google search analytics to see if there&#8217;s a difference between the types of things people from rich and poor countries search for, believing that it might reveal something about their mindset. The researchers came up with a measure called the &#8220;future orientation index&#8221; highlights include: People from countries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/040612_2057_WhatDoRichC1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3557"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3560,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions\/3560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}