As a follow-up study to Gregory S. Paul’s ground-breaking treatise which shows that religious countries aren’t very good, I conducted an exhaustive review of my own.

OBJECTIVES AND STRUCTURE

My research attempted to discover any correlation between visits to the Gleeson Bloglomerate (a website located at blog.gleeson.us) and basic measures of societal goodness.

For my representative sampling of societies, I chose all those countries beginning with the letter U: Uganda, the Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States, Uruguay, and Uzbekistan. Additionally, I included Colombia, as an example of a country not beginning with the letter U.

DATA

First, I tabulated the frequency of visits to the Gleeson Bloglomerate originating from any of these societies, expressed as a percentage of total visits to the Gleeson Bloglomerate.

TABLE I: Visits to Gleeson Bloglomerate (Expressed as a Percentage of All Gleeson Visits) by Societies Beginning with U, Plus Colombia

(Source: Sitemeter)

The values for this measurement ranged from 0.01 (for Uganda) to 65 (for the United States). Using these figures as a baseline, I proceeded to ascertain their possible correlation to basic measures of societal goodness, with “societal goodness” defined as those quantifiable quantities which tend to make a society gooder.
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