tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post8178557268141364647..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Those Swedes AgainAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-23801320446658504182009-07-19T12:33:54.686-04:002009-07-19T12:33:54.686-04:00Yup. Me included.Yup. Me included.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-35186992484618298462009-07-18T23:51:05.633-04:002009-07-18T23:51:05.633-04:00The bottom ten percent of Swedes who came in the l...The bottom ten percent of Swedes who came in the late 19th and early twentieth centuries seem to have done pretty well here.Jeremiah Whitmoorehttp://neopaleocons.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-23180024411573288972009-07-10T19:45:46.256-04:002009-07-10T19:45:46.256-04:00Agreed. But beyond emigration from Sweden, we als...<a href="http://nooilforpacifists.blogspot.com/2009/06/collective-imagination.html" rel="nofollow">Agreed</a>. But beyond emigration from Sweden, we also must consider <a href="http://nooilforpacifists.blogspot.com/2007/09/americas-healthy-healthcare.html" rel="nofollow">immigration to America, which depresses some trans-national statistics</a>. The U.S. instantly <a href="http://nooilforpacifists.blogspot.com/2007/08/misleading-mortality-statistics.html" rel="nofollow">could improve its international rankings by forbidding immigration</a>. That's not my preferred approach, nor--I would guess--a policy supported by the <i>Economist</i>. Still, the thought experiment does <a href="http://nooilforpacifists.blogspot.com/2007/08/healthcare-update.html" rel="nofollow">counsel caution in comparing statistics of historically heterogeneous Europe with melting pot America</a>. And, again, I recommend <a href="http://tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=011107A" rel="nofollow">this article</a> contrasting Europe and America.@nooil4pacifistshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688417615117569825noreply@blogger.com