Health and education cost more because a) it is unionised and/or a near monopoly which means b) it has failed to increase productivity and c) with the price of other goods, especially tach falling, it has taken greater share of wallet.
AI is an obvious solution now that tax is after a greater share of wallet.
On obesity, I wonder about the correlation with ‘soda’ and especially the sudden decision in 2013 in Europe that aspartame was fine after all?
On social engineering, is non Christian faith who I think it is?
Thanks for your thoughts Mark, which have sent me off to check my research. There is always a risk with sharing thought-provoking charts that I have been provoked into sharing them.
Obesity has, I believe, multiple causes. Anecdotally, the difficulty getting green vegetables when dining out in large parts of America, and parts of Britain, feels as important as the bucket-sized sodas on sale. Two things jump out at me from the data. The first is that childhood obesity rose during the pandemic and has fallen back, indicating the importance of physical movement. The other observation is the higher incidence of obesity among the poorest populations. Unhealthy foods are an opiate for the people, a topic I am working on at the moment.
The chart about the Professoriate is one that is designed to provoke. It shows representation relative to share of the population. There is a clear majority of white faculty in America and the most over-represented categories by number are white, left and religiously unaffiliated. Many academics are atheists or agnostic.
The data on religious affiliation among faculty is over a decade old. At that time there were twice as many Jewish professors ("professoriate" captures ranks from lecturer upwards) as Muslim. Research since then has focused on socioeconomic background and suggests being an academic is dynastic, with some research suggesting professors are up to 25 times more likely to have had a parent with a PhD.
All very interesting!
Health and education cost more because a) it is unionised and/or a near monopoly which means b) it has failed to increase productivity and c) with the price of other goods, especially tach falling, it has taken greater share of wallet.
AI is an obvious solution now that tax is after a greater share of wallet.
On obesity, I wonder about the correlation with ‘soda’ and especially the sudden decision in 2013 in Europe that aspartame was fine after all?
On social engineering, is non Christian faith who I think it is?
Thanks for your thoughts Mark, which have sent me off to check my research. There is always a risk with sharing thought-provoking charts that I have been provoked into sharing them.
Obesity has, I believe, multiple causes. Anecdotally, the difficulty getting green vegetables when dining out in large parts of America, and parts of Britain, feels as important as the bucket-sized sodas on sale. Two things jump out at me from the data. The first is that childhood obesity rose during the pandemic and has fallen back, indicating the importance of physical movement. The other observation is the higher incidence of obesity among the poorest populations. Unhealthy foods are an opiate for the people, a topic I am working on at the moment.
The chart about the Professoriate is one that is designed to provoke. It shows representation relative to share of the population. There is a clear majority of white faculty in America and the most over-represented categories by number are white, left and religiously unaffiliated. Many academics are atheists or agnostic.
The data on religious affiliation among faculty is over a decade old. At that time there were twice as many Jewish professors ("professoriate" captures ranks from lecturer upwards) as Muslim. Research since then has focused on socioeconomic background and suggests being an academic is dynastic, with some research suggesting professors are up to 25 times more likely to have had a parent with a PhD.