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Re: From Richard: "It's all bad news - Chaos is my fault"
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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:
   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Lindsay Frederick Braun wrote:
   80% mortality? Not likely. In fact, the opposite is true;

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.

!!! Divide it by ten, sir.

Really, you’re way off.

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**

  
   I hate it when you get in on a debate--it means that I always have to start checking my figures and citations...

I suppose I oughta stick around, then.

Go play with your boats. 8^)

Dave!



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  Re: From Richard: "It's all bad news - Chaos is my fault"
 
(...) 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 (...) (20 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"
 
(...) !!! 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. (...) (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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