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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
He/she probably does
Oh, wait, those countries with a so-called longer life expectancy only have it because they don't count infant mortality the same way we do. I wish I could get the raw numbers to calculate it on an apples-to-apples level playing field, but since they don't count anything before 34-week deliveries, that data doesn't exist. And since most of the data comes from the World Health Organization, it is about as reliable as a used car salesman's promises.
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I have often wondered, when China (and other countries) claim that their school students are better at math than U.S. students, are they using a random cross-section of the entire country, or just their best students, who actually go to school?