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U.S. Life Expectancy Fell By 1.5 Years In 2020, The Biggest Drop Since WW II:
Life expectancy in the United States declined by a year and a half in 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which says the coronavirus is largely to blame.
COVID-19 contributed to 74% of the decline in life expectancy from 78.8 years in 2019 to 77.3 years in 2020, according to the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics.
It was the largest one-year decline since World War II, when life expectancy dropped by 2.9 years between 1942 and 1943. Hispanic and Black communities saw the biggest declines.
[...] "The range of factors that play into this include income inequality, the social safety net, as well as racial inequality and access to health care," Curtis said.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 21 2021, @06:04PM (3 children)
Fuckface fucks the numbers again. The 15.1% share of deaths is 20.8% more than the 12.5% population share, not 2.6%. It gets worse in the age-standardized distribution.
(Score: 0, Troll) by fakefuck39 on Wednesday July 21 2021, @06:32PM (2 children)
I'm sorry, what now? 12.5% of the population should have 12.5% share of the deaths. To get to 15.1%, their share of the population needs to increase by 2.6%, of the entire population. What you did here is change what I was talking about - % of population share increase, to "percent of growth of that subpopulation." Which is not what I was comparing. So you made up something and called this thing only you said stupid. You do that a lot. Probably because of your incurable autism.
The reason we're not using the age-standardized graph here sherlock, is because we're comparing the first link to the second link, and while the second link shows both datasets, the first link only shows the non age standardized data. Fucking retard.
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 21 2021, @07:26PM (1 child)
15.1% is 2.6 basis points higher than 12.5%, but 15.1% is 20.8% higher than 12.5% - aka 12.5*1.208=15.1
So that means blacks are dying at a rate 20.8% higher than their population numbers would indicate they should be.
(Score: 1, Troll) by fakefuck39 on Wednesday July 21 2021, @07:49PM
yes sherlock, (15.1-12.5)/12.5=20.8%. congratulations, you've clearly completed 8th grade.
>but 15.1% is 20.8% higher than 12.5%
yes, but you're comparing the wrong thing
>So that means blacks are dying at a rate 20.8% higher than their population numbers
which is comparing the black population baseline, to what the black population should be, if the population representation matched their covid death portion. which is not what we're talking about here. we are comparing it to the total population.
now go back, read the original post, and reply on topic. In fact, the fist link clearly states what we're comparing, in the fucking title.
but I get it. you're one of those people that doesn't even bother looking at what we're discussing, and just like to spam "gotchas" with preschool arithmetic. good for you. we all need to be entertained by people making fools of themselves.