18 Jul 2007, 3:20am
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15 Jul 2007, 1:17pm
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Fun With Fat Stats

The BBC today ends a story about changes in Chinese efforts to decrease obesity with this useless statement:

One-fifth of the world’s overweight and obese people live in China and the numbers are rising dramatically.

Why useless? That doesn’t tell us anything about whether China has higher obesity prevalence than anywhere else. And indeed, it seems they do not, given that China’s population is almost exactly one-fifth of the world’s:

World Population (July 2007 CIA estimate): 6,602,224,175
Population of the PRC (July 2007 CIA estimate): 1,321,851,888
1321851888 / 6202224175 = 0.200213118 = really close to 1/5

This is to say nothing of the “look how different they are” tone of the article as a whole.

13 Jul 2007, 3:19am
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8 Jul 2007, 3:18am
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6 Jul 2007, 3:55pm
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The Times They Are A-Changin’

The Times They Are A-Changin’I’m working on a big change for this site. For almost a year, I wrote from Washington, D.C. Over that time some of my goals have developed, and I have a more complete vision for what I’d like to create in this space. Right now I’m at Stanford University in California working many hours a day to learn Mandarin as quickly as possible. As I mentioned before, I’ll be moving to Beijing to sink myself further into studies and to learn about how people and countries interact in East Asia and across the Pacific.

In what spare time I have here, I’m working on a relaunch for this website, something which I expect to complete by the summer’s end. Some of the content may change, but the goal of providing insight into the relations among China, Japan, and the United States will not change.

While I’m working on the relaunch, I will have less time to write, but I think you will appreciate the new structure. And I am sure moving from the capital of the United States of America to the capital of the People’s Republic of China will provide ample subject matter.

—Graham

6 Jul 2007, 3:19am
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5 Jul 2007, 3:19am
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3 Jul 2007, 3:21am
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