Part Twenty Eight. Because Puerto Rico’s death toll from 2017’s Hurricane is a metric of economic development, newspapers pressured to up the numbers. For the readers’ convenience, these columns are samplings of that pressure.

UTopiAH. 64 death certificates or 2,975 survey? This is Part 28 of a series for comparing life expectancy, because death rates are the new metric of economic development. Included are medical conditions ranking Utah’s #1 for health. When nose counts don’t give the answer wanted, the pressure is to turn to surveys, sampling one in … Continue reading Part Twenty Eight. Because Puerto Rico’s death toll from 2017’s Hurricane is a metric of economic development, newspapers pressured to up the numbers. For the readers’ convenience, these columns are samplings of that pressure.