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"have you ever known anyone around you starving to death?" Sample bias. Just because you do not perceive it, does not mean the thing does not exist. LMGTFY:
by monkeyfacebag 15y ago
"have you ever known anyone around you starving to death?"
Sample bias. Just because you do not perceive it, does not mean the thing does not exist. LMGTFY: http://ukpmc.ac.uk/abstract/MED/10064320 http://ukpmc.ac.uk/abstract/MED/10064320
Sure, it's not very recent, but nothing that happened during the 00s would leave me to believe the problem has somehow been solved.
- ekianjo 15y agoI'd like to read the article to better understand the observations, but the full text and pdf links return "not found", so I won't trust an abstract without reading the whole thing. Please let me know if you have the article somewhere else. About the sample bias, I agree with you, but if noone around you has ever heard or anyone dying of starvation in their lifetime (including your grandparents), the "sample" becomes more significant. Now, when people die of starvation, it's so extraordinary that they make movies about it ("Into the Wild" by Sean Penn - excellent movie, by the way).
- yummyfajitas 15y agoFood insecurity != starvation. Food insecurity doesn't even attempt to measure starvation. Scroll to page 3: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/documents/usda_report_household_food_security_2008.pdf?sid=ST2009111601621 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/documents/usda_r... Food insecurity merely measures the subjective feelings of humans. If an obese person fails to consume his normal 4500 cals/day because he ran out of cash, this is counted as food insecurity.