[gpm]

I'm not sure a word like "freedom" has an objective measure.

If you click on the "personal" tab it ranks Texas as dead last - I suspect the person you are replying to is using a definition closer to that: https://www.freedominthe50states.org/personal

[toolz]

yeah, that's a reasonable take for sure, but probably worthy of a call out that there are a lot of metrics that go into defining freedom.