File talk:Inglehart Values Map.svg

The image should not be open to interpretation, especially not for anyone with an agenda. It should accurately reflect the original since it is a graphical representation of a survey. The research data cannot change, therefore neither should the map. Jgmrichter (talk) 09:44, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

I disagree - I believe if it accurately represents the original then it is not a reacreation and thus is object to plagiarism acusations. However thanks for linking to the original, I had not seen it.--Kiyarrlls-talk 14:40, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

Uruguay, Greece and Israel are certainly not part of "Catholic Europe". In the original map, Greece and Israel are in a different color (confusingly, that of Protestant Europe). Uruguay is already wrong in the original. Or I don't understand the whole thing.--92.78.102.204 (talk) 16:28, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Also the axis number labels should be consistent. Survival/self-expression axis numbers are all negative. Survival/self-expression numbers have a decimal point only for fractions, while the other axis always shows one decimal place. There is a stray decimal comma on the survival/self-expression axis. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.121.28.16 (talk) 23:05, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

The image has very many flaws ("Moldovia," etc.). IMHO this should either be completely revamped or deleted. The33dude33 (talk) 05:07, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

The x-axis and "Moldovia" should be fixed. The figure shows cultural influences and is not a map, so "Europe" should be "European", "Asia"--"Asian", "Africa"--"African", "America"--"American". What's red should be called "Eastern European". The blue should expand to include Uruguay. What remains of the light green should called "Non-Protestant Western European" so as to include Jewish, Catholic and Orthodox. -Trift (talk) 19:38, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

Though Israel isn't in Western Europe either. Perhaps places that are exceptions to the colour region they are in should be in a different coloured blob, e.g. Israel, Greece. This suggests that they are anomalies, i.e. culturally unlike their geographical neighbours. 93.96.236.8 (talk) 09:05, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

Also, some Middle Eastern countries are currently listed in South Asia. And shouldn't Georgia be ex-Communist? 93.96.236.8 (talk) 09:07, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

Also both East + west Germany are named as in Protestant Europe.. today Germany's populations are close to equal inadherents (29% Protestant - 30% Catholic) .. (see Germany#Religion Tjpob (talk) 19:23, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

Why is Portugal in Latin America? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.136.42.60 (talk) 08:49, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Other issues with this rather odd chart:

• China and Vietnam are "Ex-Communist"
• The vertical axis goes from 2.0 to -2.0, but the horizontal one goes from -2.0 to -2.0 - negative on both sides
• The second rightmost label on the horizontal axis is -1,5 - using a comma instead of a full stop as used elsewhere (mentioned long ago above, but still there)
• The red blob isn't labeled

Garrett Albright (talk) 13:48, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

Despite all the errors found why this still being used?? Because if there all these erros why should we trust the data? --viriatus (talk) 16:00, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

The map looks like an almost-canard. Being from Sweden myself, I'd say it's accurate that Sweden is one of the most secular countries in the world (in the sense that laws, mass media and social orders are independent of traditional pieties and non-rational authorities, the church etc) - but why would it rank so much higher on the 'self-expression' scale than Denmark, Britain or Australia? "My right to say whatever goddam thing I want, straight off" is a popular watchword and a political yardstick in Denmark (cp. the Muhammed cartoons) much more than in Sweden, and it's probably a cherished value in Australia too, isn't it? And why is Puerto Rico the "most tradition-laden" and least secular society in the world?? - The concept for the map is basically not useful as long as it doesn't count in variations dependent on social class and religion withion countries.Strausszek (talk) 13:50, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

Red Dashed Line

What is this meant to indicate? Startswithj (talk) 05:22, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

It indicates that the ex-soviet bloc countries are inside of it, and that the non-ex-soviet countries are outside of it.--Kiyarrlls-talk 14:42, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

Cuba and Angola missing

Cuba and Angola, both "ex-2nd World" or "Ex-communist" as it's put here, are not in the chart, and Vietnam is also ex-communist, or still "socialist" - which in fact is a much better word than communist. I think these additions would add dinamism to this interesting chart. --Kiyarrlls-talk 14:34, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

Greece

Why is Greece put in as Catholic Europe? They are Eastern Orthodox.--188.230.189.111 (talk) 20:38, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

MIS Quarterly

Fun fact for anyone who may be interested (e.g. the author), this image was used in Burtch G., Ghose A., Wattal S. (2014) 'Cultural Differences and Geography as Determinants of Online Prosocial Lending', MIS Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 3, pg. 782 [1]. One of the 'top 8' academic journals for information systems, kind of neat (= — Preceding unsigned comment added by Blair25 (talk • contribs) 12:08, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

Get rid of the colours

The colours here are ridiculous, they're clearly trying to force a pre-conceived idea onto a map where it doesn't fit at all. It's like a ridiculous gerrymandering in politics with long salients all and weird shapes forced onto the data. Just have a cross reflecting the four corners and leave it at that.