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lumberjack_jeff

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2. Pick only two

Reply to Major Nikon (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 30, 2013, 01:14 PM

Apr 2013

a) women live significantly longer
b) significantly more money is spent on women's healthcare
c) society places a higher value on men

A and B are facts.

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Imagine if women lived 10 years less than men! [View all] Bonobo Apr 2013 OP

Imagine also if men consumed 33% more of the total health care spending Major Nikon Apr 2013 #1

Pick only two lumberjack_jeff Apr 2013 #2

I don't personally believe that it has much to do with anything except the structure of the human Warren DeMontague Apr 2013 #3

Maybe. Maybe not. lumberjack_jeff Apr 2013 #4

Hmmm. I suppose, although there has always been *some* disparity. Warren DeMontague Apr 2013 #5

The chart is life expectancy at birth. lumberjack_jeff Apr 2013 #6

That could be true... Bonobo Apr 2013 #7