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draypresct t1_iy3klz6 wrote
Reply to comment by ZippityZerpDerp in [OC] The life expectancy is Palestine is higher than Iraq, Syria and almost as good as Jordan. by naimious
They define it as the Palestinian territories in the West Bank and Gaza, where being Jewish is a death sentence, so this is pretty much limited to Palestinians.
Palestinian citizens of Israel itself have life expectancies more comparable with their Jewish neighbors, although there is a ~4-year difference.
On the other hand, life expectancies of Palestinians in Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria have tended to be lower. Among other things, they receive less international aid.
draypresct t1_ix5i0b6 wrote
Someday, scientists will innocently come up with a pill that lets people choose the sex of their babies.
A generation later, there will be brushfire wars all over the Middle East and Asia.
draypresct t1_iumcl7u wrote
Reply to comment by rammo123 in This data is not beautiful: Iranian regime's recent murders [OC] by imnitwit
>I don't know why the media is so hellbent on downplaying the role of men in these protests.
They're not. They're showing the protests as being led by students; i.e., young men and women. They're depicting the protests as motivated (in large part) by the disproportionate oppression of women.
draypresct t1_itl6gyd wrote
Reply to comment by N3XT191 in [OC] Distribution of page counts by genre, my personal bookshelves! by N3XT191
Whups! I should have spotted history/historical. Thanks!
draypresct t1_itl53tp wrote
Nice! Interesting to see the range of fantasy novel lengths.
I wonder how many of the pages in the historical books come from the reference section.
draypresct t1_iqwk3zv wrote
Reply to comment by orgtre in The returns to learning the most common words, by language [OC] by orgtre
Where did the data on the most common words/language come from? The same books as you used in your comparison?
In other words, if I used similar methods on a bunch of statistics textbooks, would I show high levels of comprehensibility with relatively small vocabularies based disproportionately on statistical jargon?
draypresct t1_iy3n3l2 wrote
Reply to comment by tilapios in [OC] The life expectancy is Palestine is higher than Iraq, Syria and almost as good as Jordan. by naimious
“Palestinian territories in the West Bank”. I agree this isn’t the entire geographic West Bank.
If a Jew buys a house in one of these areas, both the Jew and the seller would be killed.