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No, the important question there is whether or not doctors as a class die differently. If you don't account for education and income, you are just proving that
by mattnewton 10y ago
No, the important question there is whether or not doctors as a class die differently. If you don't account for education and income, you are just proving that doctors have different education and income than the average American, which is not very interesting.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoExactly. And what I quoted says that if you account for that, then doctors do not die differently.
- Retric 10y agoExcept doctors are a rather unique intersection of income and education. What % of people with the equivalent of PHD's make 200+k/year without also being doctors. You could hypothetically say Top Investment Bankers do cocaine at rates similar to people making 10+Million per year, but the sample size of people making 10+ Million a year is tiny and a large chunk of those people are investment bankers. PS: The other issue is showing population A is different from population B becomes harder as you decrease population size. With 1 million people 0.5% can be significant with 5,000 people 0.5% generally looks like noise.