Regarding corruption,
using 2000 data from
Transparancy International,
.
I plotted anticorruption versus latitude.
in ascii
in html.
Actually, my more recent plot of transparancy versus wealth
shows a much more convincing correlation than transparany versus latitude.
But does wealth cause transparancy or does transparancy cause wealth?
Probably neither.
I've discovered the Lynn and VanHannon IQ data for countries.
I should make some plots to try to figure out which is more tightly
bound, anticorruption and IQ, or anticorruption and wealth.
Here's a guy who
worked out something even more ambitious.