Before revision:  and FI, SA , RU, AL, IR have \phi_i^{28} < 3.0. Independent verification may be warranted for those countries with unusually low clustering < 0.05) correlation was found between the lack of media freedom in a country, as represented by a high Reporters sans frontieres Press Freedom Index (PFI^{2020}), and the lack of statistical noise in the country's daily counts.
After revision:  and FI, SA , RU, AL, IR have \phi_i^{28} < 0.5. A statistically significant (P^{\tau < 0.05) correlation was found between the lack of media freedom in a country, as represented by a high Reporters sans frontieres Press Freedom Index (PFI^{2020}), and the lack of statistical noise in the country's daily counts.