Life Expectancy and Child Mortality Tells Us Less Than We Think

James Peron
The Radical Center
Published in
11 min readJan 28, 2020

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People quote life expectancy or child mortality rates to prove many things which they don’t actually prove. They say much about life in general but little about any one specific issue. Both are related to dozens of issues and which of them is the reason for the numbers in question is rarely clear.

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James Peron
The Radical Center

James Peron is the president of the Moorfield Storey Institute, was the founding editor of Esteem a LGBT publication in South Africa under apartheid.