[dijit]

Austria might be an outlier.

In the UK, Sweden and Estonia (the only places I have data for) it would be within this ballpark, never more than €1k (in their respective currencies).

[FirmwareBurner]

Maybe, but because of outliers you can't then claim EU elective surgery is cheap when it obviously doesn't apply across the entire block. I'm sure it's cheap in some countries yes.

[dijit]

It is in 100% of the places I know about.

I think making any broad EU statement even if it applies to many/most is fine.

There will always be some outliers in the data.

There is a similar argument about generalisations on behaviour, ie: statistically average behaviours of people.

You have to be able to talk in broad strokes with the knowledge that it doesn't apply to everyone.

[FirmwareBurner]

>It is in 100% of the places I know about.

It's also in 100% of the countries I know about. What does that mean?

[dijit]

how many EU countries do you know about?

Would you like me to investigate the propensity of this EU wide, or are you being glib about knowing only a single country and that technically is 100% of your knowledge?

[FirmwareBurner]

>how many EU countries do you know about?

How many are your 100% of the countries?

[dijit]

2, plus one former as indicated.

I could probably speak a little to the surrounding nordic countries to be honest, it is fair to assume they have similar systems because they are very similar in many areas.