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Got Seniority, ...?
« on: December 01, 2012, 01:07:46 AM »
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy




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Re: Got Seniority, ...?
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2012, 05:41:11 PM »
Macau is a very small ex-Portuguese colony. I wonder whether older people are attracted there from other parts of China or Hong Kong, or whether most are born there. Perhaps it has something to do with the food as well, which is a fusion of Portuguese and Chinese. Macau has more Christians than Hong Kong or China.

I read somewhere that women's average breast size has grown by a cup size since McDonald's came to Japan.
Afghanistan is easy to diagnose: there has been a war there for the past 40 years, and the literacy rate has been falling.
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Re: Got Seniority, ...?
« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2012, 04:07:31 PM »
as i stated in another post Food is a factor in longevity. but macau is such a unknown place to me . all I know is it`s the vegas of the east so maybe the buffet is the cause.

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Re: Got Seniority, ...?
« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2012, 02:24:01 PM »
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/us/life-expectancy-for-less-educated-whites-in-us-is-shrinking.html?pagewanted=all

Loosing ground for the less educated white population?

How many people is that?

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Re: Got Seniority, ...?
« Reply #4 on: December 08, 2012, 03:35:55 PM »
Loosing ground for the less educated white population?

How many people is that?

Overall, one out of four Americans has a college degree.

Among White Americans, it is a higher proportion, but still, over half do not have a college degree.

Many do not finish high school, either.
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Re: Got Seniority, ...?
« Reply #5 on: December 08, 2012, 05:00:21 PM »
Oh!

So is this a statistical artifact ?

Perhaps there are fewer poor undereducated white people and the remainder are not really worse off, just that the better off have been skimmed off of the list?

Is that what you ment?

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Re: Got Seniority, ...?
« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2012, 11:47:37 AM »
There always will be salesmen, sports stars, singers and such that make oodles of money. This is LOTS easier if one is White in this country. The only way to become more educated is to learn stuff. This is lots easier with the Internet.
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