- Can a brain scan determine whether children will become criminals?
- The five most dangerous countries to be a woman.
- Sony security breach analyzed: Top 3 passwords? Seinfeld, password, and winner.
- Iceland crowdsources its new constitution.
- How many calories will $1 buy you?
- Women’s life expectancy decreasing in some parts of the U.S.
- MRIs of teenage brain waves can predict pop hits.
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I found it interesting to compare the women’s life expectancy map with a map of Native American reservations. Even though not every reduction in life expectancy is as striking a match as the Rosebud reservation in South Dakota you do see a fairly stagnant trend in the other reservation land areas.
Could the decrease of life expectancy be related to demographic changes, like recent arrivals of poorer populations to a new area? In that case presumably the average life expectancy would appear to fall, even if the “native” people of the area weren’t experiencing declines.
This is a bit nitpicky, but I assume Freakonomics will get science better than your average blog.
Correlate is different than ‘determine’ so that first headline is pretty misleading. Even the link’s ‘predict’ is better. Determine sounds way to accurate.
And MRIs don’t measure brain waves. “Neural activity” would work fine. “bloodflow in teen’s brains” would be a step above the rest.