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by ffgjgf1 727 days ago
If you adjust by factors like obesity, state and drug use US is quite close or more or less on the same level as Western European countries.

Even if you don’t do that there is a higher variance in life expectancy between different US states than inside the EU. e.g. California is about on par with the Netherlands, Germany, Britain while Mississippi and West Virginia are slightly below Bulgaria (of course mainly because of drugs..). IMHO that kinds of makes generalized comparisons semi-meaningless.
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allendoerfer 727 days ago
"The US has a poverty problem. People are dying."

"Yeah, but just unimportant people from flyover states. We have to divide our analysis of the United States: Over here in California - you now were the people we care about live - life is just as good as in these other fancy European countries we don't look down upon."

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ffgjgf1 727 days ago
> Yeah, but just unimportant people from flyover states

That’s not what I said at all..

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allendoerfer 727 days ago
Why does it matter which Americans are dying? Other countries are not uniform either, averages are still applicable.
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ffgjgf1 727 days ago
> Why does it matter which Americans are dying?

Because they are dying due to different reasons which can’t be solved all at once using the same methods.

> averages are still applicable.

For what? What do you think is the purpose of any statistics or metrics?

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