Helen Joyce
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181 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2012
last heard Jan 2015
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And has there really been an explosion in them?
Are we just noticing now?
And what are the policy implications for countries that are trying to tackle these issues?
The increase is certainly real.
So we cited in the article this pair of academics, Kelly and Simmons, who had done an extraordinary internet search of rankings.
And they had found that from, say, pre-1974, when there was basically nothing like this, to now, it's multiplied by many, many, many times the number of country rankings.
Why do you think that is?
A mixture of reasons.
One is just the internet.
The data's available.
These things used to just be on shelves.
And then the second reason is also to do with the internet, and that's a poll reason.
They're catnip for the sorts of things that get shared on social media.
People love rankings.
If you see something about, you know, which countries are the best place to live as a woman or something like that, you look to see where your country is or any other countries that you maybe lived.
You know, people make headlines of them.
The odder the comparison, the better.
And then this feeds back into people who create indices.
That's why they do it.
If you have a policy that you want to get taken seriously, one great thing you can do is create an index.
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