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by thrdbndndn 1180 days ago
> These sorts of charts are meaningless without being broken down by race.

I see the exact opposite: the data you showed is meaningless without being broken down by income.

The "life expectancy vs income" chart works similarly in almost all countries, including single-ethnicity countries. So it's clearly something.

But the race one you showed is not income-adjusted. It's well known Black people in the US on average is poorer than, say, White people. It's totally possible (with full data, it's easy to do statistical analysis) their low life expectancy is largely due to poverty.