TimesToCome

So I was wandering around the net looking for some interesting statistics to dig into and ran across the CDC cause of death tables. I thought it’d be interesting to see how Texas compared to home.

Heart disease leads both states 25% for Mass. and 26% for Texas. Cancer comes in second at 25% for Mass. and 22% for Texas. Third is other heart/vascular stuff at 6% each.

But then things diverge. What is interesting is accidental deaths. They make up 2.5% of Massachusetts deaths and 5.4% of Texas deaths. Texas being a much larger state with a whole lot more people that’s a whole lot more accidental deaths and I wondered is it because we have more idiot proofing in Mass. enabling idiots to live longer? Or is it that Texas has more idiots? Or is it the huge difference in gun laws and gun ownership between the two states?

Traffic deaths are first for both with Mass. coming in at 37% of accidental deaths and Texas at a huge 45% of accidental deaths.

Number two is where things get interesting again. The number two cause of accidental deaths in Mass. is falls coming in at 20%. Probably winter has a lot to do with that. Poisoning is the number two cause of accidental death in Texas accounting for 18% of accidental deaths. It is only responsible for 8% of Mass. deaths. Almost all of these poisoning deaths in both states were due to complications of medical and surgical care.

So it is not idiots or idiot proofing, it is bad medical care. If you want to live long in Texas stay as far away from doctors and hospitals as possible.

{ Death by firearm in Texas was .8% Mass. was .2% neither was a significant contributor to death accidental or otherwise. VP Cheney must not spend much time hunting in either state. }

CDC Injury Center

NYT An Accounting of Daily Gun Deaths

We’ve all been hearing across the news, forums, and blogs how white males are becoming a minority in the United States. As of 2005 white males made up 1/3 of the US population. They are already a minority. I’m not sure if they haven’t accepted that fact or if anyone has dared to tell them yet?

Now the hue and cry I’ve been hearing blames the decline on immigration from non-north European countries. However, 135,000 less males than would normally be expected have been born in the last 30 years. There are 17 less males being born per 10,000 births in the US. But black male births have increased slightly over this time.

Then we have the Darwin Effect. Despite decades of idiot-proofing and that traditionally 105 men are born for every 100 females men still do themselves in in great numbers. Somewhere around age 18 the number of males and females are equal and it’s all downhill from there.

Researchers have been able to generate sperm cells from men’s bone marrow and expect the same technique will work on women. Babies born from sperm created from women’s bone marrow will be female since women do not carry the Y chromosome.

It was also reported this week that interracial marriages have soared. 2% of 1970s marriages were interracial, 7% are currently interracial.

So it would seem that perhaps immigration is not the cause of the coming minority of white men.
Women live longer than men because we don’t kill ourselves

Wiki, White male

Male Declining in the US., 135,000 fewer White Males Born During Past 30 Years

The prospect of all-female conception

Inerracial Marriages Surge Across the US