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TIL that malnutrition isn't an issue in North Korea (ponder.cat)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is a weird one. Bear with me. From [email protected]:

So I said to myself, "that's a little bit weird. The US one going up, I can actually believe, but the North Korea one being lower is definitely wrong."

I think Our World In Data is just being shoddy, as they often do.

https://www.wfp.org/countries/democratic-peoples-republic-korea

https://www.statista.com/statistics/269924/countries-most-affected-by-hunger-in-the-world-according-to-world-hunger-index/

The thing I found funny, and why I'm posting here, comes from observing why it was that they started their graph at 2003 and exactly at 2003.

I feel like you could use this as a slide in a little seminar in "how to curate your data until it matches your conclusion, instead of the other way around."

And also, I don't think the hunger rate suddenly dropped from epic to 0 exactly in 2003, I think more likely Our World in Data is just a little bit shoddy about their data.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

you were probably above the poverty line, especially if you managed to emigrate

Family based immigration to USA, had to wait like 13+ years, paperworks started wayy before I was born. As far as I know, it has nothing to do with how rich you are (well, beside the fact that the relative in the US has to sign a paper to "sponsor" us, basically promising to pay the government in case we took certain government benefits within 5 years of entering, which we we never took any of those government benefits btw). Basically its nust luck.

Edit: Also, I heard that many people, particulary people from Fujian, China, have immigrated to the US without permission. Like, they didn't even get legal permission and could get deported at any time, yet they still came here. Like that's how much people wanted to leave.

Which just think about it, I seemed kinda lucky tbh, most people can't through the legal method, and is at risk of deportation come 2025 (ya know... new administration... honestly I'm not sure if legal immigrants like me are safe... 😖 hopefully, my citizenship status is good enough to not get kicked out.)