Interesting timing as one of those freakonomics-wannabee blogs only yesterday tried to discredit the idea that the US had a maternity problem with a weirdly pol

Interesting timing as one of those freakonomics-wannabee blogs only yesterday tried to discredit the idea that the US had a maternity problem with a weirdly political attack. Apparently some statistical change in 2003 somehow caused a much higher death rate of mothers in the decades before it even happened and simultaneously caused a disproportionate amount of black mothers to die. You have to be really careful with time-travelling, genocidal statistical errors but apart from that there's nothing we can do to prevent the 80% of these deaths that are preventable, says the only developed country where this happens. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40596223 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40596223