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From: dagmargoodboat on 27 Mar 2010 18:48
On Mar 23, 3:19 am, Falk Willberg <Faweglasse...(a)falk-willberg.de>
wrote:
> Am 23.03.2010 05:42, schrieb dagmargoodb...(a)yahoo.com:
>
> > On Mar 22, 8:19 pm, John Larkin
> > <jjlar...(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
> >> On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:02:58 +0000, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax
>
> ...
>
> >>> Ever wondered whether you might be doing something wrong, compared with
> >>> the UK?
> > But, even with that, if you eliminate murders (gangs, killing one
> > another, mostly) and car accidents (Americans can afford more cars,
>
> Do they?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicles_per_capita

or

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/tra_mot_veh-transportation-motor-vehicles
(if you prefer pictures)


> > and to drive them more),
>
> Germans (23 onhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy) use
> to drive them fast ;-)

We also license 16-year-old kids, with minimal training. You?

> > Americans outlive Europeans.
>
> Cubans outlive U.S. citizens ;-)

That's not hard to do--just abort teenagers' babies before they're
born, or let them die without counting them. Teen babies are much
higher risk, so just killing them instead of counting them improves
average life expectancy at birth quite a bit.

for example:
http://www.overpopulation.com/articles/2002/cuba-vs-the-united-states-on-infant-mortality/

And, as above, how many Cuban teenagers (or adults) can even afford
cars, much less lose their lives at young ages crashing them? In the
US that particular cause-of-death disproportionately kills young
people. And, when young people die, that brings down the averages,
naturally.

Life-expectancy at age 40 would be a better indication of medical
efficacy, eliminating infant-mortality reporting games, but we suffer
there too from having so many fat people. Being fat causes heart
disease and increases cancer risk dramatically--our #1 and #2 killers.

A better (but still flawed) measure of medical care quality is that of
medical outcomes for matched populations of equally sick patients.
That is, directly checking how well patients with medically treatable
conditions fare, country-to-country.

Poke around a bit. You'll be surprised.

--
Cheers,
James Arthur
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