Re: KDE v. Gnome

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From: Mark Evans
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 00:00

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Louis B. Moore <moore.louis@childrens.tchden.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Consider that in the USA infant mortality is a lot higher than in
>> Britain, despite the fact that healthcare spending per person is
>> 4 times as much. The reason is (at least in part) that in the USA
>> most of the healthcare spend goes on the rich, so babies born into
>> poor families get to die.

> I wish you were wrong. It sickens me that the wealthiest nation on
> earth fails to care for its own population. 

It also shows the problem with average figures quoted on their
own being misleading. Also without indication as to the average
being the arithmetic mean, the mode or the median. With arithmetic
mean (which is often treated as synonymous with "average") being
the least accurate way to summarise a diverse population.

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From: Mark Evans <mark@grapefruit.ndirect.co.uk>
Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome
Date: 1998/10/13
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