Thread: That "panacea' of socialized medicine in Australia creating'equality' in universal health service? Damning statistics of aboriginalpeople say NO! "Universal care' doesn't work there either
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Old December 5th, 2012, 02:25 PM posted to soc.retirement,alt.activism.death-penalty,aus.politics,alt.health,rec.travel.europe
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Default That "panacea' of socialized medicine in Australia creating'equality' in universal health service? Damning statistics of aboriginalpeople say NO! "Universal care' doesn't work there either
On 5/12/12 13:24, in article
, "PJ O'D"
wrote:

Evleth, the overall life expectancy of the French is now reportedly
81.5 years which may or may not be fudged by the French.
American life expectancy overall is reported at 78.6 years.

That difference is probably close to a margin of error, Evleth


Math is not you strong point!

In mathematics, a figure expressed in three figure accuracy has
is normally good to +/-0.1 unless otherwise stated.
In fact the year to year figure changes can
be up or down from the previous figure by that much. So it is
best to look for trends using 5 yr stats. For instance the
total life expectancy earc year from 2000 to now
was

78.76 78.9 79.05 79.28 79.44 79.6 79.73 80.59 80.87
80.98 81.09 81.19 81.46

In this case I would not expect better than 3 figure accuracy not 4. Notice
that the heat wave of 2003 had no discernable effect on the life expectancy.