Even though I think the Human Development Index is fairly bogus, I still found this report on intra-American HDI quite interesting. Most striking factoid: white Americans stand about half-way between the “most-developed” group (Asians) and the “least-developed” group (Native Americans).
HT: Tyler
Apr 28 2010
Arnold ably identifies two main narratives about the 2008 financial crisis. But he neglects the simplest narrative of all: Once in a century, a once-in-a-century mistake happens. The end.I know the simplest narrative is unsatisfying. Nevertheless, it's less unsatisfying than any other narrative I've h...
Apr 28 2010
Russ Roberts has a long narrative of the financial crisis. One excerpt: An unpleasant but unavoidable conclusion of this paper is that Wall Street was (and remains) a giant government-sanctioned Ponzi scheme. Homebuyers borrowed money from lenders who got their money from Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and banks that borro...
Apr 28 2010
Even though I think the Human Development Index is fairly bogus, I still found this report on intra-American HDI quite interesting. Most striking factoid: white Americans stand about half-way between the "most-developed" group (Asians) and the "least-developed" group (Native Americans).HT: Tyler
READER COMMENTS
floccina
Apr 28 2010 at 2:25pm
I read somewhere that the life expectancy by country is highest in Japan but the that Japanese Americans live even longer than that.
Garrett Schmitt
Apr 28 2010 at 3:13pm
From the report:
A Decent Standard of Living is measured using median annual gross personal earnings…
Stuff like this will be biased by differences in purchasing power of money across states. This has knock-on effects on the race/ethnicity rankings because of the different racial/ethnic compositions of states.
The UN income measures across nations incorporate estimates of purchasing power parity. I don’t know of any official statistics approximating purchasing power parity across US states, though. The best approximation I can imagine might be locality pay differences for Federal employees, but those are not defined by state.
Chris T
Apr 28 2010 at 3:20pm
It’s interesting, when you compare health statistics for white Americans to Europe as a whole, the numbers tend to be quite similar.
floccina
Apr 28 2010 at 3:24pm
Interesting also to see that Latinos out live whites.
Even more interestingly Latinos in the USA out live most Europeans.
Add fact to that the fact that the eight Americas study shows that rural northern whites out live the general population and you begin to wonder if access to health care shortens life! Arhgggg!
Chris T
Apr 28 2010 at 3:27pm
I still find these maps interesting (life expectancy by county and dominant ancestry by county):
http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2009/07/dont-blame-canada.php
John Thacker
Apr 28 2010 at 4:45pm
Comparing Vietnamese-Americans in Louisiana who came from rural Vietnam to high-caste Indians and voluntary Japanese-American immigrants in New Jersey is evidence that lumping “Asians” together is misleading.
Still, it’s a useful corrective to people who take the raw numbers too seriously.
Steve Sailer
Apr 29 2010 at 4:44am
Latinos in America have long had really good infant mortality statistics. I’m not sure why that is.
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