1. Why is it potentially deceptive to say that the US maternal mortality rate increased by 100% between 1987 and 2006?
2. How is Mayor Giulani creating a confusing picture of health care in the US and in Europe? Explain
3. Please find and list 5 benchmarks that are not included in the 10 you read about (NOT: US population is just over 300 million, each year about 4 million babies are born in the US, about 2.4 million Americans die each year, roughly 1 in 4 who die do so of heart disease, roughly 1 in 4 who die, die from cancer, more or less, about 35,000 die in traffic accidents, about 17,000 deaths are homicides, about 16,000 deaths are from AIDS, there are about 40 million black Americas, about 16% of Americans identify themselves as Latino)
4. What is the advantage of using the coefficient of variation to summarize variability, as opposed to just using the standard deviation?
5. Describe a situation where using the median would be more appropriate than using the mean?