Europe and America
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Europe and America
My review of David Harsanyi's recent book
Over at The Lamp, my review of David Harsanyi’s Neo-Conservative, Neo-Liberal tirade Eurotrash is now out from behind the paywall. Me at my most atrabilious and splenetic (please excuse the language: I am trying to revive the medical science of the “corporeal humours”).
Europe and America
Ah, I have forgotten my high school lessons. A reader named Zack Kennedy has reminded me:
"The mean takes the average of a set of values, while the median takes the middle value of a set of values. To get a sense of how much the "average" person has, it is better to look at the median value since it is unaffected by outlier values - e.g. if the the wealthiest person of the society has $500K or $1 trillion. If we were measuring the net worth of a group of roughly equal individuals, we would assume that the mean and median values for this group would be similar. If Jeff Bezos walked into the room, the mean would increase by ~100 billion dollars, but the median would be relatively unaffected."
Mea maxima culpa. Which is very much more than both mea mediana culpa and mea submedia culpa.
As a Scot, a Brit, and a European (married to an American) I didn’t quite appreciate the squalid view some have of our continent. A continent of as many variegated cultural and social nuances as any other land mass.
Though I shall not become too truculent: Scotland, to our shame, has the highest rate of drug-related deaths in Europe. A multifactorial causal web no doubt but one that, as a physician, is heart-rending to witness first hand.