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Old December 4th 05, 01:37 AM posted to misc.kids.breastfeeding
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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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Old December 4th 05, 03:32 AM posted to misc.kids.breastfeeding
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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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Old December 4th 05, 03:48 AM posted to misc.kids.breastfeeding
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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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Old December 4th 05, 04:27 AM posted to misc.kids.breastfeeding
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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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Old December 4th 05, 04:31 AM posted to misc.kids.breastfeeding
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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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Old December 4th 05, 04:32 AM posted to misc.kids.breastfeeding
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On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 02:48:24 GMT, in misc.kids.breastfeeding Cuddlefish
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I thought



No you did not.
 




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