It's certainly not an exact number. They use statistics to try to
determine how many people died prematurely from a condition that was
caused or exacerbated by air pollution. If you have 1000 people living
in LA and 10 of them die from mesothelioma, and out of 1000 people
living in Kansas only 1 dies from mesothelioma then you know there's
some kind of difference between these populations. The math in
statistics gets pretty intense, but the short version is you can look at
factors that you know cause mesothelioma (smoking, asbestos, radon, etc)
and try to control for all those factors until you're left with an
amount of difference that can reasonably be attributed to the smog in
LA. Then do the same with emphysema, asthma, etc.
I can't imagine how they separate air pollution from coal, oil, and gas
though. That seems way fuzzier.
On 7/9/2021 4:20 PM, Cameron Crum wrote:
Seems like a very subjective data set. How do you determine deaths
from "air pollution"?
On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 3:04 PM can...@believewireless.net
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I'd rather see the deaths by accident alone. "Air pollution" seems
like it could be a fuzzy number.
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