Tuesday, November 02, 2010
"Cuba vs. the United States on Infant Mortality"
For me, this article is a classic representation of how the headline results of a study may NOT represent or accurately inform the viewer of what's really going on.
Of course, our "sound bite" society doesn't lend itself to ever getting the whole story; and, in addition, the media is prone to exploit the headline without much interest in anything else...
Of course, our "sound bite" society doesn't lend itself to ever getting the whole story; and, in addition, the media is prone to exploit the headline without much interest in anything else...
Brian Carnell writes at Overpopulation.com:
"Recently released statistics on the infant mortality rate in the Western hemisphere yielded an odd conclusions — Cuba’s infant mortality rate, 16 6.0 per 1,000, is now lower than the U.S. infant mortality rate, at 7.2 per 1,000. Given Cuba’s poverty level, its 6.0 rate is very impressive, but is it accurate to say that Cuba now has an infant mortality rate lower than the United States? No."
