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% of children who are still breastfeeding 20-23 months
In article A_kkf.20248$ki.20043@pd7tw2no,
Cuddlefish wrote: I think the population as best as I can determine is non industrialised nations. Um, it includes South Africa, India, and the Gulf States. They aren't entirely agricultural! Te original info is from: http://www.unicef.org/sowc04/sowc04_tables.html It's a summary table and, going by the notes, is not derived from a single survey. Australia and the USA have "not available" for this field, and in Australia's case it is almost certainly because we have no national BFing statistics collection. -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "In Melbourne there is plenty of vigour and eagerness, but there is nothing worth being eager or vigorous about." Francis Adams, The Australians, 1893. |
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Cuddlefish wrote: Irene wrote: Cuddlefish wrote: You've left out the information on the population in question here. Is it third world countries? Countries with the highest infant mortality? These data are irrelevant to those of us that live in a first world nation - especially that spurious weighted average. Jacqueline Well, apparently the data is from Unicef - maybe that is simply where they have data? I don't have a problem with an average - as long as you understand that it is an average of the countries listed. Which is still interesting, if not a Global Average. I'm not sure why you think it is irrelevant to learn about things in countries besides your own? Irene Huh? Well you jumped to a silly conclusion. I was approaching it from the perspective that these data claimed to produce a number [weighted average] that had no identifying info as to what it meant. Given the numerical illiteracy of much of the world, people would look at that number and draw conclusions that are false. I *know* where the data came from [UNICEF] but I could not see *what* the data represented. If people tried to extrapolate those figures to other countries not listed, they would come up with something meaningless. I'm glad that you can draw somethng out of a number derived from a bunch of other numbers and use it to understand something about the world. I on the other hand need to know what the number represents before I can truly understand its significance. Jacqueline If you had simply criticized the "weighted average", I would not have replied the way I did. However, you specifically said, " These data are irrelevant to those of us that live in a first world nation - especially that spurious weighted average" Personally, I thought the country-by-country data was the interesting portion of the data. Irene |
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Irene wrote:
If you had simply criticized the "weighted average", I would not have replied the way I did. However, you specifically said, "These data are irrelevant to those of us that live in a first world nation - especially that spurious weighted average" And from that you jumped to the non-sequitor that I thought it was "irrelevant to learn about things in countries besides [my] own?" Again, my dislike of non-contextual statistics and incorrect usage of data reveals nothing about my desire [or perceived lack thereof] to learn anything about the world. Useful data teaches us quite a lot about the world we live in. It is the whole point of collecting it in the first place. Jacqueline |
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Count my daughter as one in America who is still being breastfed. YAWN, I'm
so tired of it!!!!!!! ~Carol Ann Mom to Morgan, 20 months old http://tinyurl.com/b9e9r ---- Pictures of Morgan |
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On Sat, 03 Dec 2005 21:47:46 GMT, in misc.kids.breastfeeding Cuddlefish
wrote: Jacqueline - amazed by the stupidity of people who don't understand the statistics they post Oh well in that case I bow down to your superior intelligence and mind reading abilities. |
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On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 02:48:24 GMT, in misc.kids.breastfeeding Cuddlefish
wrote: I thought No you did not. |
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