Tricky beasts!laphanphon wrote: ↑Sun Jul 30, 2017 6:40 amBesides the plumbing inspection vs PSA, the added cost for wife was the mammogram.404cameljockey wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2017 5:23 pmI guess women cost more because of the plumbing. Tricky beasts!
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Jut corrected your typo, cameljockey.404cameljockey wrote: ↑Sun Jul 30, 2017 10:14 amTricky breasts!laphanphon wrote: ↑Sun Jul 30, 2017 6:40 amBesides the plumbing inspection vs PSA, the added cost for wife was the mammogram.404cameljockey wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2017 5:23 pmI guess women cost more because of the plumbing. Tricky beasts!
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dtaai-maai wrote: ↑Sun Jul 30, 2017 8:16 pmJut corrected your typo, cameljockey.404cameljockey wrote: ↑Sun Jul 30, 2017 10:14 amTricky breasts!laphanphon wrote: ↑Sun Jul 30, 2017 6:40 am Besides the plumbing inspection vs PSA, the added cost for wife was the mammogram.
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Am I reading that correctly? Hope not....
The global survey – involving a total of 2,003 online interviews with expats aged 25-59
That's a bit of a joke isn't it ?
Global survey or 2003 people. 195 countries, so just over 10 people per country surveyed.....
OK .... half the countries surveyed .... 20 ish people. Just G20 countries, wow 100 ..
Everyone I know is retired, so survey is meaningless.
And the highlights of the survey, by an Insurance company, pointing out issues and concerns of those not insured........
No disclaimer stating it is (should be) an advertisement.
The global survey – involving a total of 2,003 online interviews with expats aged 25-59
That's a bit of a joke isn't it ?
Global survey or 2003 people. 195 countries, so just over 10 people per country surveyed.....
OK .... half the countries surveyed .... 20 ish people. Just G20 countries, wow 100 ..
Everyone I know is retired, so survey is meaningless.
And the highlights of the survey, by an Insurance company, pointing out issues and concerns of those not insured........
No disclaimer stating it is (should be) an advertisement.
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the best book I ever read in high school was: How To Lie With Statistics. it's still available.
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So two replies and two sets of mistrusting comments (handdrummer just thinks that no statistics can be trusted, and he has a point to a degree, might be nice to know how the people who completed the survey were selected, and if a larger number of results were collected than actually were used in the report, making selectivity a possibility).laphanphon wrote: ↑Sun Jul 30, 2017 10:53 pm Am I reading that correctly? Hope not....
The global survey – involving a total of 2,003 online interviews with expats aged 25-59
That's a bit of a joke isn't it ?
Global survey or 2003 people. 195 countries, so just over 10 people per country surveyed.....
OK .... half the countries surveyed .... 20 ish people. Just G20 countries, wow 100 ..
Everyone I know is retired, so survey is meaningless.
And the highlights of the survey, by an Insurance company, pointing out issues and concerns of those not insured........
No disclaimer stating it is (should be) an advertisement.
Re the number of people polled per country, the survey methodology in the survey explains generally 100 people per country (seems they picked countries with a significant expat population - for example Burkina Faso does not figure). See pp.14-15. So not just 10 people per country.
I'm not doubting Cigna would not have published it if it didn't suit their purpose, but I don't see any reason to mistrust the statistics without reason. Cigna is not some shady backstreet operation? Also there's no suggestion that they only polled uninsured people.
Anyway, I only left it here for comment, and I got some! Cheers.
And I guess I was off-topic again.... Sorry admins, my mind wanders.
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I didn't mean to imply that I mistrusted "all" statistics, merely that one can lie with them to make whatever po9nt one wants to make.
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Two obvious reasons. Respondents were all members of Internations. That's a sample of convenience, not one picked because it's representative. Secondly, CIGNA didn't report their response rate. The lower the response rate, the greater the garbage in the data.404cameljockey wrote: ↑Mon Jul 31, 2017 9:10 amI'm not doubting Cigna would not have published it if it didn't suit their purpose, but I don't see any reason to mistrust the statistics without reason.
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OK but why would randomly selected members of Internations be less representative than a sample picked any other way? It's a global expat website, seems a perfectly reasonable place to poll?Homer wrote: ↑Mon Jul 31, 2017 8:04 pmTwo obvious reasons. Respondents were all members of Internations. That's a sample of convenience, not one picked because it's representative. Secondly, CIGNA didn't report their response rate. The lower the response rate, the greater the garbage in the data.404cameljockey wrote: ↑Mon Jul 31, 2017 9:10 amI'm not doubting Cigna would not have published it if it didn't suit their purpose, but I don't see any reason to mistrust the statistics without reason.
And garbage in data is just that, it's not an attempt to manipulate the data. Although I did wonder how they selected the responses to include in the survey and which to leave out (if that's how it was done).What I was trying to say was I don't see a specific reason not to trust Cigna's handling of the data, rather than the accuracy of the data collected. Sorry I was vague on that.
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Perfectly reasonable on the face of it, which is why it's called Face Validity http://www.statisticshowto.com/face-validity/ Defining representative samples isn't easy. That's why research firms who can repeatedly do it get paid the big bucks.404cameljockey wrote: ↑Mon Jul 31, 2017 9:20 pm OK but why would randomly selected members of Internations be less representative than a sample picked any other way? It's a global expat website, seems a perfectly reasonable place to poll?
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Biggest benefit?
Everything is cheap. And it's hot. And it's not closed all the time.
Everything is cheap. And it's hot. And it's not closed all the time.
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Not everything is cheap, cars for one thing are much more expensive here than many countries.
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the only things that are cheap and that is a relative term, are items grown and produced here. it also depends on where they're purchased. lettuce at the OKAY market in Cha Am is nearly 1/2 the price of lettuce at Golden Place.