Re: Re: death & income

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote:

>       Well, my quick off-the-cuff international
> regression suggests that this generalization
> of Jencks's is not true, even if it might be true
> within some countries.   Thus, the US has
> a lower life expectancy than Japan and the
> European social democracies that are at
> similar levels of per capita income.  But, this
> might not prove to be statistically significant,
> even if Auntie Deirdre says not to worry.

Whatever you think about Jencks, he's extremely careful with his
numbers. I'm told that he approaches every research question with no
preconceptions - he lets his regressions do the talking. Which is
another way of saying that he's rather apolitical, though his bias is
quasi-Fabian aristo-liberal.

Doug