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Graphical Evidence — Seeing the CDR Effect

Progressive visual demonstration that C, D, R individually predict GDP — and together predict it nearly perfectly

Learning Objectives

  • Visually distinguish the predictive strength of C, D, R individually versus combined CDR index
  • Compare CDR explanatory power against natural resources (CDR: 77%; N: 6%)
  • Interpret a scatter of C, D, R, CDR index, and N each against GDPppp

Chart Explorer live, real 8-country data

Remarkable Finding
"The CDR contribution to explaining variation in GDP is 0.77/0.06 ≈ 12.83 times the contribution from natural resources. Intangible assets are astonishingly more impactful than the tangible ones." — P3, §5 Correlation

The Vexillological Chart

P2 Appendix A reproduces a "G vs CDR index" scatter plot using country flag bubbles, where bubble size is proportional to the square root of population. 79 countries form a nearly straight line, confirming that the CDR-to-GDP relationship holds regardless of country size, geographic location, culture, or population characteristics. The 8-country subset above (flag markers) shows the same pattern.

Fig. 6 · 4D Bubble Graph live chart

Axes: Democracy (D, horizontal) and Capitalism (C, vertical). Bubble size represents GDPppp; bubble color represents Rule of Law (R). This 2D projection renders the published 4D idea in-browser using the available country examples.
Sources
P3 · §4 Graphical Analysis — GDP vs C (Fig.1), D (Fig.2), R (Fig.3), CDR (Fig.4), N (Fig.5), pp. 7–9 P1 · §4 Analysis Fig.1 (4D bubble graph C,D,R,GDPppp), p. 5 P2 · Appendix A — G vs CDR index vexillological chart (Fig.2), p. 15 P4 · §4 Fig.3 — G vs CDR index (79 countries, year 2014), pp. 7–8