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Kueh wrote on 2012-11-08 19:17
[Image: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Median_age.png/800px-Median_age.png]
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RealityBreak wrote on 2012-11-08 19:20
So Canada, Europe (except France?), and japan are full of old people?
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Kueh wrote on 2012-11-08 19:52
Quote from RealityBreak;977924:
So Canada, Europe (except France?), and japan are full of old people?
Yes.
But consider the countries which have free health care, and consider the map again.
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Kingofrunes wrote on 2012-11-08 20:20
Australia has Free Health Care. US does not.
You were saying?
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Kingofrunes wrote on 2012-11-08 20:20
Austria has Free Health Care. US does not.
You were saying?
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RealityBreak wrote on 2012-11-08 20:31
Quote from Kueh;977943:
Yes.
But consider the countries which have free health care, and consider the map again.
Obama will cause us to get an influx of old people?!?! :!!:
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Sumpfkraut wrote on 2012-11-08 20:54
Then America is truly doomed.
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Kueh wrote on 2012-11-08 22:17
Quote from Kingofrunes;977954:
Australia has Free Health Care. US does not.
You were saying?
I said it was a correlation. And I'm still saying that.
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Mentosftw wrote on 2012-11-08 22:22
Quote from Kingofrunes;977954:
Australia has Free Health Care. US does not.
You were saying?
Also correlation =/= causation. It's merely an interesting observation.
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RealityBreak wrote on 2012-11-09 02:54
Quote from Mentosftw;978013:
Also correlation =/= causation. It's merely an interesting observation.
No, correlation generally means causation. Statistics is just anal about not wanting you to go around making assumptions.
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psyal wrote on 2012-11-09 05:04
Just for some helpful information about Japan that I've heard about:
Japan, recently, has had a lower birth rate than in the past. They've closed lots of elementary schools. I've heard of one being turned into a senior center type of thing.
Having a high median age isn't necessarily a good thing. Just to show that, once again, statistics aren't everything.
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Taycat wrote on 2012-11-09 05:08
Quote from RealityBreak;978191:
No, correlation generally means causation. Statistics is just anal about not wanting you to go around making assumptions.
cor·re·la·tion
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1.
mutual relation of two or more things, parts, etc.: Studies find a positive correlation between severity of illness and nutritional status of the patients. Synonyms: similarity, correspondence, matching; parallelism, equivalence; interdependence, interrelationship, interconnection.
2.
the act of correlating or state of being correlated.
3.
Statistics . the degree to which two or more attributes or measurements on the same group of elements show a tendency to vary together.
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Physiology . the interdependence or reciprocal relations of organs or functions.
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Geology . the demonstrable equivalence, in age or lithology, of two or more stratigraphic units, as formations or members of such.
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the action of causing or producing.
2.
the relation of cause to effect; causality.
3.
anything that produces an effect; cause.
You were saying?
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RealityBreak wrote on 2012-11-09 05:08
Quote from psyal;978282:
Just for some helpful information about Japan that I've heard about:
Japan, recently, has had a lower birth rate than in the past. They've closed lots of elementary schools. I've heard of one being turned into a senior center type of thing.
Having a high median age isn't necessarily a good thing. Just to show that, once again, statistics aren't everything.
When has statistics shown that having a high median age is a good thing?
Japan is one of many countries that have an aging population. I think Russia was one of them at some point (or maybe still is); it's generally a problem of the more stable countries. I'm really isolated from the rest of the world atm, so I have no idea what's goin' down in other countries.
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Taycat wrote on 2012-11-09 05:11
So you're getting at that the older the population is, the less opportunities for younger population?
If so, that's a thing in America already.
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RealityBreak wrote on 2012-11-09 05:16
Quote from Mythical Detective Loki;978289:
So you're getting at that the older the population is, the less opportunities for younger population?
If so, that's a thing in America already.
Rather, it's generally a problem for the small younger population to have to support an aging population. I think Russia ran into these problems at some point where retired old people were promised pension and wellfare stuffs from the old Soviet Union and couldn't get it after the collapse. I read some crap on this in history a few years ago, I've really no idea what I'm talking about.