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Re: From Richard: "It's all bad news - Chaos is my fault"
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 28 May 2004 20:51:03 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Lindsay Frederick Braun wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Lindsay Frederick Braun wrote:
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80% mortality? Not likely. In fact, the opposite is true;
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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:
http://www.photius.com/wfb1999/rankings/infantmortality0.html
in 1999 more than 30 nations had infant mortality rates over 9% (most of them
in sub-Saharan Africa), compared with .063% in the US and .058% in the UK.
On the other hand, Saudi Arabia, itself a wealthy nation, had a rate of
38.8%. That’s pretty high, too.
Wait a minute--Papua New Guinea clocked a 76% child mortality rate in 2001,
so maybe I’m not too far off-track.
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!!! Divide it by ten, sir.
Really, you’re way off.
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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
here, in section 4.3. Poor citation on my part.
**snip of the rest that really should have been obvious to me**
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I hate it when you get in on a debate--it means that I always have to start
checking my figures and citations...
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I suppose I oughta stick around, then.
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Go play with your boats. 8^)
Dave!
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