Comments on: funny statistics? http://blog.webfoot.com/2008/01/12/funny-statistics/ Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:19:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Sandy Ingham http://blog.webfoot.com/2008/01/12/funny-statistics/comment-page-1/#comment-341 Sandy Ingham Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:18:40 +0000 http://www.webfoot.com/blog/2008/01/12/funny-statistics/#comment-341 Hi, I too went to the excellent talk by Zarqa Nawaz. And I was struck by the stat she gave on US maternal mortality. It turns out that the study done by the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention list homicide as A leading cause of mortality. However, the most common cause of death was indeed complications of pregnancy followed by car accidents. Then came homicide. Check out http://www.jrrobertssecurity.com/security-news/security-crime-news0043.htm Hi,

I too went to the excellent talk by Zarqa Nawaz. And I was struck by the stat she gave on US maternal mortality.

It turns out that the study done by the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention list homicide as A leading cause of mortality.

However, the most common cause of death was indeed complications of pregnancy followed by car accidents. Then came homicide.

Check out http://www.jrrobertssecurity.com/security-news/security-crime-news0043.htm

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