Fascinating. I don’t think I’ve ever seen another graph that shows what we typically think of as some of the wealthiest countries in the world being portrayed in a negative light regarding child...
Fascinating. I don’t think I’ve ever seen another graph that shows what we typically think of as some of the wealthiest countries in the world being portrayed in a negative light regarding child poverty.
I find this statistic shocking and alarming “Some 6% of all children in the UK live in households richer than the best-off typical child in my analysis. Those 6% of children, the best-off children of all, live in families that each year receive and spend a third of all the income in the UK.”
And the graph that directly compares Germany, USA, France, and the UK is interesting in the way that the US and UK both have sharp dips in generally the same places, but the other countries do not.
What was going on in France at this time (2010-2020) to cause such a height explosion ?
Lastly, I just noticed this graph is reported in cms, and both the US and UK use imperial to measure height. I wonder if the lack of —fine increments(?) due to unit differences makes height changes less prevalent and thus overlooked as a component of health across generational time ?
For example, many people will round height up or down if they are “in between” say something like 5’2.5” gets rounded to 5’3” which is 158.75 cm and 160.02cm, respectively, or a difference of 1.27cm.
While most adults in the UK probably know their height in vague imperial terms rather than metric, in medical settings it's always metric. The timeline of adopting metric is very muddled, and the...
While most adults in the UK probably know their height in vague imperial terms rather than metric, in medical settings it's always metric. The timeline of adopting metric is very muddled, and the link to their dataset is broken, but I'd be very surprised if conversion were a factor in data this recent.
They are becoming shorter in height. More of them are going hungry than they were a few years ago. Recently, more have died each year than they did a few years ago. Increased poverty, more destitution and the effects of ongoing austerity are the clear culprits.
The methodology sounds interesting, but the article ends just when it's getting good. I guess to learn more, we'd need to read the book he's promoting (Seven Children). From this book review it...
The methodology sounds interesting, but the article ends just when it's getting good. I guess to learn more, we'd need to read the book he's promoting (Seven Children).
From this book review it appears that the book is about seven fictional children, which is a bit disappointing, since it seems to be a literary device to make the statistics seem more relatable? I wonder what could be learned through interviews?
Fascinating. I don’t think I’ve ever seen another graph that shows what we typically think of as some of the wealthiest countries in the world being portrayed in a negative light regarding child poverty.
I find this statistic shocking and alarming “Some 6% of all children in the UK live in households richer than the best-off typical child in my analysis. Those 6% of children, the best-off children of all, live in families that each year receive and spend a third of all the income in the UK.”
And the graph that directly compares Germany, USA, France, and the UK is interesting in the way that the US and UK both have sharp dips in generally the same places, but the other countries do not.
What was going on in France at this time (2010-2020) to cause such a height explosion ?
Lastly, I just noticed this graph is reported in cms, and both the US and UK use imperial to measure height. I wonder if the lack of —fine increments(?) due to unit differences makes height changes less prevalent and thus overlooked as a component of health across generational time ?
For example, many people will round height up or down if they are “in between” say something like 5’2.5” gets rounded to 5’3” which is 158.75 cm and 160.02cm, respectively, or a difference of 1.27cm.
Thanks for the share !
While most adults in the UK probably know their height in vague imperial terms rather than metric, in medical settings it's always metric. The timeline of adopting metric is very muddled, and the link to their dataset is broken, but I'd be very surprised if conversion were a factor in data this recent.
The methodology sounds interesting, but the article ends just when it's getting good. I guess to learn more, we'd need to read the book he's promoting (Seven Children).
From this book review it appears that the book is about seven fictional children, which is a bit disappointing, since it seems to be a literary device to make the statistics seem more relatable? I wonder what could be learned through interviews?