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To: damainman who wrote (68547)	9/4/2007 3:12:46 PM
From: KyrosL	Respond to of 116555

OT I am pretty sure my method of calculating the effects of infant mortality is a very good approximation. I doubt it's more than .01 years off from a completely accurate statistical calculation, and it's actually overestimating the infant mortality effect. I will be very interested if you find a calculation by those that claim that "infant mortality weights heavily on life expectancy." I am pretty sure they mean the huge infant mortalities one finds in very underdeveloped countries in Africa, rather than the 3 infants per 1000 difference found between France and the US. If they say that it's the infant mortality statistics that are responsible for the difference between France and the US they are either lying or they don't know math. If you want a more comprehensive explanation of the math I used, send me a PM. I hope you remember your high school algebra though :)