pecanjim.bsky.social
Retired Sociology/Demography professor, working on explaining our high death rate. Did too many things to list. A data hound.
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Go to the CIA
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Ally takes a while getting to the right page.
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Sorry, I guess I got addresses mixed up.
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I was and am very much like your son. I drove my mother crazy. Back when I was about three my uncle gave me a carpenter’s tool kit for Christmas and I got up early and did not wake mom up. I took the saw and made the kitchen table fit me at above 18 inches high. My tool kit disappeared but I am PhD.
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I thought about that but could not figure out how to do it. I would like to color by one variable and paste another's value in each state.
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Yes, sorry for the wrong word, I have always been a bad speller but 12 years ago I had an encephalitis infection of my brain. When I came too, I could not think of words so that night I went the the alphabet aa, ab..zz and through of 196 words when I hit zz., decided suicide then counted counting.
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Almost, Hawaii is top.
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Here space is too limited to meet those academic standards. All you have to do is look up and download state and country life expediencies, merge and sort them by life expectancy put a count column next to them and sort.
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OK, go ahead and read every one of them and afterwards have any time to do anything else. All you have is an excuse to do nothing to make things better.
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In general I feel the range in these state state rankings, I feel we are not deserving of being called United.
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The thing that got me thinking was Evans & COVID. During the first year, before vaccines, the correlation between Pct Evan and COVID was 0.04 during the second year that r was .73. I have since found data that shows 93% rely on prayer for health care. It is an experiment showing prayer doesn't work.
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Search the internet for a list ranking countries by COVID death rates and see how your country compares with the USA and any others you are interested in. Just playing teacher.
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Evangelicals moving to prayer for health care seems to be less effective at keeping people alive than science bases health care. A recent survey had 93% saying they relied on prayer for health care. Also, do an internet search for Evangelical. health insurance.
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As I looked at this again this morning another point came to me. Obesity doesn't increase death rates until about age 55, a point that the last, females in Republican states, group's death rate finally heads down.
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If you do an internet search for church health insurance you will find what i think is a way churches make money by selling insurance that promotes praying for cure.
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I think it is the party composition of the state boards that regulate the health insurance industry. There is software that allows them to predict who they are going to lose money on The Book Deadly Spin by Wendell Potter describes how it went into effect in chapter VIII.
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How about a flying dinosaur head?
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I managed to get the data pulled together yesterday, I forget what time a was able to make the graph this morning but outside of being on my desktop, the bluesky posting is it. I am 82 years old and a demographer , the life table tells me I don't have enough time left to go through submitting it.
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The attached graph is another plot of r's. It shows the correlation between year and death rate for 510 single year age by sex by Democratic, Mixed Party and Republican voting states. The Evangelical effect does not show up in hear because it is not correlated with age but is with Republican.🧪💡☠️
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I am a believer in good coffee. I buy green beans, usually Ethiopian, from Sweet Marisa's in San Francisco. I roast them in an over the campfire popcorn popper over a pecan wood fire. I make double shot cappuccinos, I have one at about 4:30 in the morning, another at 10 and a last one about 4 pm.
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I would say the violent criminals are males. Not all males are violent criminals. Sorry the old professor coming out.
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He knows it but he just doesn't want the public to know it.
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I am afraid I don't understand your post.
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It looks like a rotting small tree trunk.
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The growth in Baptist attendance i s probably due to the decline in COVID but conversions to Baptism is declining but less than in earlier years. I would wait a couple of more post COVID years to figure out what is going on. But the linked article is by a Baptist organization. I have low trust.
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An additional comment: I want to collect birth and death dates from a large number of tombstones at Fundamentalist churches. Enough to calculate a small life expectancy table. Just to see how well it fits the measures I am using.
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Have you seen the Pew data on Evan choice of health care? I also think the high failure rate of prayers for care to a diseased relative is losing members. The correlations show differences between Evans and others in each age group. Thanks for scientific comments.
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These are the years in which first serious illness hits. What I think is happening is the so called health insurance industry. is using the software that predicts health to predict who they are going to lose money on and they use that to decide who to deny health care to and kill money losers early.
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Actually the opposite is true, Evangelicals have a high birth rate which produces more young and a higher death rate which lets the non-Evans have more older people. I have looked at single year age data it shows this age grouping is strongest in Republican voting states.
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I am in the middle of trying to estimate the additional deaths that their practices cause, I am not finished but it is a way lot more than opioids. It shows up in data as far back as 1980. Were you even around back then?
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Just look at that face!
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Yea, it has almost addicted me to large r's.
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I live in rural Alabama, ditto on knowing many.
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The PEW research center has data showing that 93 percent of the Evangelicals rely on prayer for health care. Guess what? it does not work.
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I am afraid I have several things out, can you name the finding you are asking about?
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In general the data shows that Evangelicals are primary responsible for the United States high death rate. There is data for 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010, 2014, and 2020. These all show a fairly consistently higher death rate. I know of cases of early deaths among them that is due to denying care.
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Thanks for sending that, Trump's level of lies, I guess that describes it, just keeps growing.
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It is not all religious groups. Catholics and non-Evangelical protestants are insignificantly down. But that is not up. It clearly looks like the United States high death rate is substantially in changes in the Evangelical protestants. The look like they use prayer to cure them.
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As someone who survived an encephalitis infection of my brain at age 66,I find this interesting.
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Why is this not treated like a crime?
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Not looking at data right now but I have made maps in the past that show death rates. From memory, the lowest funding research states are close to the same ones with the highest death rates.
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The data are real, the problem is the early data was availble in different age groups. I provided data comparisons that showed death rates went down in the first and second in both parts. That could not be the case if Trump wasn’t lying when he said death rates were going up.
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Here is the handy link showing state presidential vote. An aside on using state vote for president instead of local elections, the state voters are responding to the same person, when you use governor etc, there is great variation in what the state vote is for.
ballotpedia.org/Presidential...