yetanotherspaceguy t1_itzriva wrote on October 27, 2022 at 2:31 PM

Reply to comment by froggythefish in More Than 104,000 New York City Students Were Homeless Last Year by Lilyo

Not so much denying statistics as saying that they are extremely misrepresentative of what life is like in Cuba, and it’s clear that anyone who thinks otherwise has never actually been there. It’s not really a competition about who is living a better life in abject poverty, but if it were you certainly would likely prefer to be in any of the poorer capitalist countries you mention. I appreciate any recommendations for reading material though, I’ll check it out. Since you seem to be impressionable, here’s some light reading for you: https://academic.oup.com/heapol/article/33/6/755/5035051

froggythefish t1_iu21y3q wrote on October 27, 2022 at 11:44 PM

This article you sent is hilarious.

Ok so they start off immediately by saying basically that since Cuba is an outlier in infant mortality, and they are doing too well, they must be lying. They also say that it makes little sense Cuba can be so poor yet have such good healthcare, though they correct this statement later on. In another paragraph, they say that Cuba limiting car ownership artificially increases life expectancy by 1: lowering car crashes and 2: forcing people to exercise by biking or walking. how is that a bad thing lmfao. They go on to claim that since Cuba has a very high abortion rate, the infant mortality rate is artificially lowered by aborting even slightly risky births. This is silly. Cuba provided free safe abortions, that is why the abortion rate is so high. This article is just a bunch of strawmans and assumptions, trying to make a point that just isn’t there.

yetanotherspaceguy t1_iu23tkz wrote on October 27, 2022 at 11:59 PM

I don’t think you really understand the meaning of “strawmans” (or basic statistics for that matter), but you have otherwise completely missed the point and it’s not really worth arguing over.