[bsuvc]

> Black Americans experienced largely similar improvement in AAMR in both Democratic and Republican counties.

Doesn't this prove that it is something other than who your county voted for in the last presidential election causing an increase in AAMR?

> Rural Republican counties experienced the highest AAMR and the least improvement

What if living in a rural area is more of a factor than being a "Repulican county"?

This study seems like it is bending over backward to try to tie the risk of death to who you voted for in the presidential election.

[wolverine876]

> What if living in a rural area is more of a factor than being a "Repulican county"?

The study controlled for that.

[lallysingh]

What are you quoting? I can't find the phrase "AAMR" in the article at all. Nor "Black Americans."

[tclancy]

It looks like an intentional cherry pick of this to avoid the fact it doesn't say what they suggest:

>What is perhaps most telling in our study is that while both Black and Hispanic Americans experienced largely similar gains in health regardless of what political environment they lived in, with Black residents of Democratic areas experiencing the greatest reduction in deaths rates of any major racial-ethnic group, the sharpest divide is seen among white Americans. In fact, the fourfold growth in the gap in death rates between white residents of Democratic and Republican areas seems to be driving most of the overall expanding chasm between Democratic and Republican areas.

[bsuvc]

From the abstract of the actual study, not the article.

https://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj-2021-069308

[tinalumfoil]

https://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj-2021-069308

[bombcar]

It's likely another example of pet peeve #208 https://xkcd.com/1138/