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Salim Damerdji's avatar

What's going on with our politics and/or legal profession such that the US is such an outlier for # of legislators with law backgrounds? We have nearly a 2x higher rate of lawyers than the next country in Sen's graph

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David Watson's avatar

I actually stared at that graph for a while thinking “where’s the us? Is this just a study of other countries??” Before noticing we’re way out at the edge.

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