Surely the fact that the two numbers are so different proves it is important?
The same reason you split data by age, gender and social class. All these categories can matter in medicine. No just for epidemiology, but in deciding treatment or risk for an individual. The more specific the data the better, but you need a statistically significant sample size. Race is a statistical cluster of genetic factors, and genetics matter. However, in the case of cervical cancer, it may be more cultural. Blacks in the US have lower condom use, and a much higher incidence of STDs.
Whatever the reason, know blacks have higher risk means you can make more specific recommendations, and better target funding and public education.
Does "black" cover anyone who isn't white, or are we ignoring asians?
No, A typical U.S. study might include black, white, non-white hispanic, and "other". Sorry, not enough East Asians in our study to get meaningful conclusions.
experts speculate that the large difference reflects unequal access to preventative medicine and quality healthcare.
Which "experts"? Why dismiss all the other cultural and genetic possibilities? If it is about "access", why do poor whites have better life expectancy, and why are Hispanics so healthy and long lived in the US?
Bluetooth range is too great. You need to know if the user has left the desk or room. Best alternative to the camera would be active infrared sensors, as used on Moto X phones. They are low power, would detect when you move away, and let you keep the tape over your webcam.
Pedantic note: The bomb dropped on Hiroshima wasn't "nuclear", it was "atomic".
They are all "nuclear". Fission splits the nucleus in two.
> uses nuclear fusion to achieve most of its yield.
Not necessarily. In a big bomb, most of the yield can actually come from fission of the U238 tamper in the secondary. The "Tsara Bomba" was only 50MT instead of 100 because the replaced the U238 damper with lead.
> "Atomic" bombs are fission-only devices
No, not always. They can be fusion-boosted single-stage weapons. You're not real great at this "being pedantic" lark eh?:-)
"Gender Dysphoria" is not a mental illness. Unless being gay is a mental illness too,...
There is no simple definition of mental illness. You have to look at the impact of the condition. Does it stop a person from being happy and functioning in society? If a man likes to put on a dress when he goes out partying every Saturday, that could be seen as a harmless eccentricity. But if you get to the point of wanting drugs and major surgery for your "condition", I'd call that a serious mental illness. Especially since the treatment is not very successful as resolving the dysphoria. Many gays on the other hand seem to get by just fine as they are. Its only an illness if one takes a Darwinian viewpoint.
Because readers paid the newspapers and that money was used by the newspapers to pay journalists
No it was not. The cover price was not even enough for printing costs. What paid for those journalists was classified advertising, called "rivers of gold" by Rupert Murdoch. Of course the internet killed the classified ads, and online subscriptions can never replace that.
I can see the logic in preferring people who donate, but if you go down that route you have to start thinking about people who smoke and destroy their lungs, or drink and wreck their liver
We already do. Alcoholics don't get new livers. Smokers are pushed way down the list of transplant recipients for anything. You want a new kidney? Then stop smoking and lose weight if obese. We do not hold patients responsible for past sins, but we do for current ones.
So by analogy, you would not consider how long someone had been on the organ donor list, just if they are on it at the time they find out they want to be a recipient.
The reality is that there isn't really a way to CONFIRM the existence of Jesus after 2000 years,
Many people would find this a revelation! They regard Jesus as a real historical figure like the prophets Mohammed or John Smith. They think Jesus is as real a Julius Caesar or Socrates, but it turns out to be a story that may or may not be based on a real person.
The Jesus we know is from stories written well after his death by people who never met him. How many Christians wrongly think the gospels were written by the apostles? The stories were circulated verbally for decades before being written down in something like their current form.
The oldest books in the new testament are by St Paul (who wrote about half of the letters that are traditionally ascribed to him), who also never met Jesus. He is the main source of the Jesus character, and we have no way of knowing how accurate Paul was, how much of his version is invention. But there are certainly many similarities between Paul's Jesus, and previous figures of legend. At the least, Jesus of Nazareth is a composite character.
That's just not true. More often than not, there's no invasion, instead of group of puppet opponents are trained and funded by the USA. Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Argentina, Chile, Zaire/Congo, Cuba, Colombia, Panama, El Salvador, Ghana, Haiti, Honduras, Uruguay, Guatemala. Probably many others.
When did climate denialism become party dogma? Have the tea-party nutters taken over? Or is it still on the (large) extremist fringes of the Republican party?
My dad's family lived in a SoCal chicken coop when he was very young. His father was employed digging potatoes.
Ohhhh we used to DREAM of livin' in chicken coop! Woulda' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woken up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us!
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Correction: the condom use is the other way around (higher for blacks), so definitely not a possible explanation. Sorry, did not fact-check in time :)
Surely the fact that the two numbers are so different proves it is important?
The same reason you split data by age, gender and social class. All these categories can matter in medicine.
No just for epidemiology, but in deciding treatment or risk for an individual.
The more specific the data the better, but you need a statistically significant sample size.
Race is a statistical cluster of genetic factors, and genetics matter.
However, in the case of cervical cancer, it may be more cultural. Blacks in the US have lower condom use, and a much higher incidence of STDs.
Whatever the reason, know blacks have higher risk means you can make more specific recommendations, and better target funding and public education.
Does "black" cover anyone who isn't white, or are we ignoring asians?
No, A typical U.S. study might include black, white, non-white hispanic, and "other". Sorry, not enough East Asians in our study to get meaningful conclusions.
experts speculate that the large difference reflects unequal access to preventative medicine and quality healthcare.
Which "experts"? Why dismiss all the other cultural and genetic possibilities?
If it is about "access", why do poor whites have better life expectancy, and why are Hispanics so healthy and long lived in the US?
Bluetooth range is too great. You need to know if the user has left the desk or room.
Best alternative to the camera would be active infrared sensors, as used on Moto X phones.
They are low power, would detect when you move away, and let you keep the tape over your webcam.
I volunteer Washington DC with all of congress and the pres and vice-pres in town when it happens
You figure President Rex Tillerson will sort out the problem?
Pedantic note: The bomb dropped on Hiroshima wasn't "nuclear", it was "atomic".
They are all "nuclear". Fission splits the nucleus in two.
> uses nuclear fusion to achieve most of its yield.
Not necessarily. In a big bomb, most of the yield can actually come from fission of the U238 tamper in the secondary.
The "Tsara Bomba" was only 50MT instead of 100 because the replaced the U238 damper with lead.
> "Atomic" bombs are fission-only devices
No, not always. They can be fusion-boosted single-stage weapons. :-)
You're not real great at this "being pedantic" lark eh?
"Gender Dysphoria" is not a mental illness. Unless being gay is a mental illness too, ...
There is no simple definition of mental illness. You have to look at the impact of the condition. Does it stop a person from being happy and functioning in society?
If a man likes to put on a dress when he goes out partying every Saturday, that could be seen as a harmless eccentricity. But if you get to the point of wanting drugs and major surgery for your "condition", I'd call that a serious mental illness. Especially since the treatment is not very successful as resolving the dysphoria.
Many gays on the other hand seem to get by just fine as they are. Its only an illness if one takes a Darwinian viewpoint.
Safe bet that Amazon will be rushing some sort of patch on that ASAP
Patch!? Hell no, they've rushed out a patent - the no-click patent. Everyone else will be prevented from doing this, which is some consolation.
It did too. I was there, and the rep's name was Craig Shergold.
Well bugger me! ... No! No! Cancel! ...
Alexa 7.0 robotic assistant will need a safe word.
Because readers paid the newspapers and that money was used by the newspapers to pay journalists
No it was not. The cover price was not even enough for printing costs. What paid for those journalists was classified advertising, called "rivers of gold" by Rupert Murdoch.
Of course the internet killed the classified ads, and online subscriptions can never replace that.
I can see the logic in preferring people who donate, but if you go down that route you have to start thinking about people who smoke and destroy their lungs, or drink and wreck their liver
We already do. Alcoholics don't get new livers. Smokers are pushed way down the list of transplant recipients for anything. You want a new kidney? Then stop smoking and lose weight if obese. We do not hold patients responsible for past sins, but we do for current ones.
So by analogy, you would not consider how long someone had been on the organ donor list, just if they are on it at the time they find out they want to be a recipient.
I think I prefer the Taxi Driver to the Uber driver.
Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.
The reality is that there isn't really a way to CONFIRM the existence of Jesus after 2000 years,
Many people would find this a revelation! They regard Jesus as a real historical figure like the prophets Mohammed or John Smith.
They think Jesus is as real a Julius Caesar or Socrates, but it turns out to be a story that may or may not be based on a real person.
The Jesus we know is from stories written well after his death by people who never met him. How many Christians wrongly think the gospels were written by the apostles? The stories were circulated verbally for decades before being written down in something like their current form.
The oldest books in the new testament are by St Paul (who wrote about half of the letters that are traditionally ascribed to him), who also never met Jesus. He is the main source of the Jesus character, and we have no way of knowing how accurate Paul was, how much of his version is invention. But there are certainly many similarities between Paul's Jesus, and previous figures of legend. At the least, Jesus of Nazareth is a composite character.
That's just not true. More often than not, there's no invasion, instead of group of puppet opponents are trained and funded by the USA. Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Argentina, Chile, Zaire/Congo, Cuba, Colombia, Panama, El Salvador, Ghana, Haiti, Honduras, Uruguay, Guatemala. Probably many others.
Not just 3rd-world countries. Some have seen the CIA fingerprints on the US's closest allies.
http://www.theaustralian.com.a...
When did climate denialism become party dogma? Have the tea-party nutters taken over?
Or is it still on the (large) extremist fringes of the Republican party?
It was only 15 years ago.
The website has not changed. It has always said that.
We have always been at war with the Mujahideen, and allies of Glorious Comrade Putin.
My dad's family lived in a SoCal chicken coop when he was very young. His father was employed digging potatoes.
Ohhhh we used to DREAM of livin' in chicken coop! Woulda' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woken up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us!
Wow. You really have to feel sorry for that patient. Its a wonder they can generate one breath.
I'm shocked, shocked , to find that Amazon is filing frivolous patents.
How long is that in terms of football fields?
English or metric football field?
It would have been easier if they'd not forgotten Alec Guinness.
Robo-waiter recommends go easy on the chilli for the Round-Eyes.
So its OK to kill and eat plants or fungi, but not animals?
I'll bet you would hold a different opinion if your were a plant.
If there's one thing I hate more than a racist, it's a kingdomist.