 | | Re: From Richard: "It's all bad news - Chaos is my fault" —Dave Schuler
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| | | (...) Well, all right--80% is a gross exaggeration. Still, infant death rates are sharply higher in third world nations than in the "developed" countries. Lemmee take another looksee... According to this site: (URL) 1999 more than 30 nations had (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: From Richard: "It's all bad news - Chaos is my fault" —Don Heyse
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| | | | | (...) [snippity snip] (...) What! You've been beating me all along with bogus facts and figures? I hate that! Liar, liar, pants on fire! I win. There, that feels better. :^) Don PS. :^) :) :^) Just in case you sensitive folks missed the other one. (21 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: From Richard: "It's all bad news - Chaos is my fault" —Dave Schuler
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| | | | | | (...) Hey, don't attribute to my duplicity what can be explained by my doofusness! (...) I figured I'd let you have one once in a while to keep you interested. 8^) Dave! (21 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: From Richard: "It's all bad news - Chaos is my fault" —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | (...) !!! Divide it by ten, sir. Really, you're way off. Read your links again. The statistics give the number of deaths *per 1,000 live births* not the number per *100* live births. So that's 7.6%, not too far off in a very poor country. (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: From Richard: "It's all bad news - Chaos is my fault" —Dave Schuler
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| | | | (...) Boy oh boy. Don't ask me to compute a tip the next time I dine on a Friday afternoon. It'll be hard to see my monitor until after my head-ectomy. The 76% figure came from (URL), in section 4.3. Poor citation on my part. **snip of the rest that (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: From Richard: "It's all bad news - Chaos is my fault" —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | (...) Note the symbol is not % but its cousin, with two zeroes in the denominator. That indicates "76 of one thousand." If they'd meant 76/100, they would have used 0/0 and not 0/00. (...) We can play the Pirate Game, winner takes all... ;) all best (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: From Richard: "It's all bad news - Chaos is my fault" —Dave Schuler
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| | | | (...) Man, this is just embarrassing. I did *not* note the mill sign. Maybe if they'd referred to basis points, it would have gotten through my skull. But probably not. I'm reminded of (URL) an admission I made long ago> in one of our many (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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