Ape Con Myth

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  • Waking Up on the Wrong Side of Your Head

    Waking Up on the Wrong Side of Your Head

    And now it’s time to play, Guess Which Way the Rankings Go!

    Is 1st place South Dakota or 50th place West Virginia the state with the least or most Poor Mental Health Days?

    This is just one example of the fun to be had at America’sHealthRankings.org, where you’ll find both an interactive map and timeline of state performance on a wide array of health issues along with a large resource of actions you can take to support your favorite cause.

    Another game to play when confronted with a somewhat random website full of stats is, Why Does This Site Exist and Who’s Behind It?  “America’s Health Rankings” is about as generic as the name under it, United Health Foundation.  The United Health Foundation, of course, was established by the United Health Group, which you might or might not recognize as the largest single health carrier in the United States.  What’s their motivation?  Perhaps the same as yours.  They probably don’t want you to have to go to the doctor either.

  • This Little Piggy Had Antibiotics

    We have access to and consume more news and information than ever.  But what are we taking from it all?
    Is this knowledge adding up in any meaningful way or is it all merely washing over us?

    Ape Con Myth wants to see what happens when you start adding it up.  Of course, where does one begin with
    such an endeavor, when a single New York Times op-ed piece can yield all of this and more:

    WhenFoodKills

  • Hans Rosling’s 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo]

    [from BBC Four – The Joy of Stats via Gapminder]