No, that isn’t what I (the article) said.

Don’t believe it if you want, but don’t make it up.

So you didn’t read it?

India’s population growth is slowing considerably (due to start falling after 2050). The economy is set to boom in that time, the article says, suggesting more of the improvements to the quality of life that India is already starting to experience.

Yelp is mainly a US app. These comparisons are being made across the world. Very unlikely to be accurate.

The US penetration rate is 33%, compared to only 6% in UK and Germany. The 2022 figures I just read didn’t even mention Australia, but I know I’ve never used it.

Hardly pointless. Yes, you are right there could be a few distortions but fundamentally this gives an accurate picture and is the regular way everyone worldwide looks at migration between countries.

What is “Postal Office mail”? The post office doesn’t address mail to you, they are just a service provider.

This isn’t really comparing apples with apples since laws differ massively across countries.

For example, Norway has a large amount of assets ($1.7T) in a particular fund because that single basket for contributions is mandated by government. Australia meanwhile has superannuation laws that require contributions be made to a myriad of different super funds that individuals choose — only the biggest few appear here (eg: Australian Super with $169B) but the total of all assets under administration in Australian super funds is actually $3.3T.

Then again, Australia has 5 times the population of Norway. Just saying it’s hard to make comparisons though…

You are talking like an American who knows nothing of the outside world. We are here on Reddit mate. Many of us aren’t from your country. There is a big wide world out here of people who don’t make the small minded assumptions you do.

I do know the CDC is an American public health authority like the Health Departments of other countries. But it’s a rarely heard term outside the US and obviously requires explanation as a US source.

CDC is the relevant acronym. I know it’s the US now but it takes a while to work it out.

It’s JustDecipherableData not BeautifulData if your audience isn’t able to read simple things like the title.

The “country gap” is much bigger than the “race gap” or the “gender gap”. What country is this?

Oh wait… I betcha it’s that country who likes guns and shooting everyone.

“One coke please” is what I say at the Macdonald’s counter, but it seems an unlikely way to “order” drugs 😂

Is this global data? Not beautiful data if your international audience has to struggle to work out something basic like scope and is supposed to understand acronyms only used in your country?

This is just American data. You need to say what your data is in a basic statement of scope in your title — “US College Majors”.

But it’s weird when a black hole takes half an island neatly down the border

No mate this is real and has moved on from that. Once Australians did tend to report “Christian” in the census when they only went to church for weddings, funerals and Christmas when grandma made them go, but nowadays these people of all ages report “no religion”. The default culture is not Christian and so people (generally) don’t feel the need to say they are that when they aren’t.

Not sure why that’s relevant? British people are less than 1 in 25 Australians. There are many many more Asian born people here in Australia than British. This is a mainstream trend not an immigration thing though. But yes the Anglican Church here is loosing people faster than the Catholic Church is.

What? The data doesn’t imply anything about that. It’s what gives people meaning in life. Great “tradesmen” don’t necessarily need to derive meaning in life from their occupation in order to be good at their work.

Funny way to put it. I’d say in the US it remains insanely high while for the rest of the 1.4 billion people in developed (OECD) countries it has generally declined much more quickly.

Other measures back this up. For example, about 64% of Americans identify as Christian compared to about 44% of Australians.

Yes that seems likely. But I’d like to see a line looping back on itself.

🤦🏻‍♂️Thanks for helping me out. I stared at that wondering what “shit holy” meant.

Yes this. I get the impression that an upper class male demeanour of those times was often tending towards a flamboyant, carefree, foppish, quirky and theatrical demeanour. Perhaps it fell out of favour in the more practical times of the Second World War and beyond. This doesn’t mean they were necessarily more gay but maybe a gay man might have been at home in this environment, if he kept his sexuality very private.

The negative side of this culture was that it was a privileged and rarefied existence, only sustainable amongst an elite who could afford to ignore the real world and be child-like and peculiar if they wanted to be.

This culture seems to live on, to some limited extent, in the British public school educated elite. To an Australian looking on from a distance, people like Boris Johnson and that Reece-Mogs (?) person seem ludicrously foppish and embarrassingly campy and extreme in many ways.

I think it’s because the “points of interest” are actually “points of boredom”. Canberra is a planned capital full of things designed to be “interesting” but that mostly fail.

Why would it be inhumane not to swab them? Alcohol prevents infection, it doesn’t anaesthetise the area.

Terrible sad stats. Amazing that Americans tolerate this official barbarism. Locking people up with execution hanging over them as they gradually die off from suicide and natural causes is sorta like torture isn’t it? It would actually be more humane to quickly carry out the sentence.