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Igel

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5. I'm seeing people with gaps in their dataset.

Reply to Kurt V. (Reply #4)

Sat Feb 1, 2020, 09:51 PM

Feb 2020

The decline in life expectancy started in 2014 and continued for several years. But the 2018 numbers are out and it's time to update one's knowledge base. (They were published before the OP was, so it's not a time snarl.)

The life expectancy increased by a trivial 0.1 year in 2018 over 2017, but few would call a trivial increase a "decrease". It remains to be seen why this was the case--perhaps that's published and I've missed it, that wouldn't be a surprise. It might be fewer suicides, might be higher cancer survival rates or lower cancer incidence (that's where I put my money), it might just be fewer young men killing each other.

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I'm seeing people with gaps in their dataset. Igel Feb 2020 #5

I don't think I read this right, it sounds like he just blamed Trump's economic policies hughee99 Feb 2020 #6

Well wages have not gone up and that affects relationships and applegrove Feb 2020 #7

Is a recently laid off middle-aged middle-class union worker the prevalent profile for suicide, hughee99 Feb 2020 #8

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If think it's one thing to say Trump and republicans have done a bad job hughee99 Feb 2020 #10

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I'm unclear what you are disagreeing about. hughee99 Feb 2020 #13

And GOP policies. They got rid of unions. They destroyed people's applegrove Feb 2020 #14

Everything you say here is true, and none of it hughee99 Feb 2020 #15

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I certainly don't deny that it could be a contributing factor in some suicides and addictions, but hughee99 Feb 2020 #17

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Again, all of what you say is true, and none of it shows causation. hughee99 Feb 2020 #19

But Trump knows better than the economists, generals, meteorologists, etc rictofen Feb 2020 #12

Mr. Stiglitz, there's a Captain Obvious calling you. sakabatou Feb 2020 #20