How exactly do social determinants of health determine health? (Unconvincing to me.)
Is HHS headquarters the ugliest buildering Washington DC?
Over 37 million Americans have diabetes (including those who are undiagnosed) and nearly 100 million have prediabetes. That’s more than one-third of the country.
Correcting the record: seniors have a lot more retirement income than is typically reported.
Correcting another record: The SAT is a strong predictor of college success, period. Even in grad school, where grades are notoriously inflated, entrance exams are strong predictors of success. HT: Tyler
Studies: Social media is not changing people’s political views.
The often-uncounted sources of retirement income mentioned in the linked article have a very uneven distribution. E.g., Most Americans don’t have a farm. Overall data – averages – are useful but they don’t reveal the distribution of the data. I once had a statistics professor who pointed out that, on average, Americans have one ovary and one testicle.
The linked article also says “implicit rent” from home equity, which effectively allows a retiree to live rent-free”.
Or maybe not. We paid off our mortgage back in the 1990s. Do I live rent-free? Hardly. We still pay property taxes, for the privilege of living in my mortgage-free house. It’s “rent”, payable semi-annually.
All of which i suppose illustrates the point of the article: measurement of retirement income is complicated and despite years of study still isn’t well understood.