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To add some more data points to what you said Literacy changed from 12% to 66 % from 1947 to 2007 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_India http://en.wiki

by shabda 17y ago

To add some more data points to what you said Literacy changed from 12% to 66 % from 1947 to 2007 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_India http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_India Life expectancy changed from 32 years to 65 years (47 to 07) http://www.google.co.in/search?rlz=1C1GPCK_enIN371IN372&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=indias+life+expectancy http://www.google.co.in/search?rlz=1C1GPCK_enIN371IN372&... Gdp changed from 93 Bil to 1.22 Trillion http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&rlz=1C1GPCK_enIN371IN372&q=indias+gdp+&meta=&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&rlz=1C1GPCK_enIN371... (1950-2007)

PostOnce 17y ago
Are these things possibly more due to the march of time than to Indian self-governance?
tel 17y ago
That's incredibly misleading and a fantastically blunt example of correlation not implying causation. Do you really think Indian Independence was the only factor over a 60 year period responsible for that 33 year life expectancy increase? It's what you comment appears to say. I'd still believe your (implied) argument considering that it was likely that after Indian Independence the people were more able to get access to modern medicine and distribute it effectively, but without including some comparative estimate those data points are particularly biased and misleading.