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Here are photos from Russian hospitals. Note that three are from: St.Petersburg, Elektrostal (Moscow suburbia) and Kislovodsk (a regional center and a resort in rich Russian south). Source (a RUSSIAN web page): kaifolog.ru/russia/7724-no

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Sergej Sumlenny

@sumlenny

Mar 28

As a former Russian, and a son of a medic, I can smell these pictures, so much they are authentic. It is a mixture of urine, chlorine, cold air, and cheap drugs. A terrible smell I need to say. A one cannot be erased from memory.

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Sergej Sumlenny

@sumlenny

Mar 28

For those who say "but Russian GDP is so high!" or "but average wealth is bigger than in Ukraine!" Guys, this is Norilsk, the home of world biggest nickel producer. 177,000 ppl live in Norilsk. The owner of NorNickel Prokhorov has $11bn wealth. This makes $62,000 per person, aha.

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Daniel

@growing_daniel

Mar 28

I'm confused about why you keep showing us mysterious dirty city pictures instead of just telling us median incomes to avoid the well-established statistical issues with per capita income

Kevin Chadwick

@AstartesKC

Mar 28

I believe modal is better, but that data strangely isn't always made available

Daniel

@growing_daniel

Mar 28

Modal doesn't really mean anything for a continuous distribution like income

Kevin Chadwick

@AstartesKC

Mar 28

It gives you the most common wage and so Joe Bloggs wage. How is that not the least weighted and most important!

FP HAM

@fp_ham

Mar 29

for income evaluation modal better than median better than average

Daniel

@growing_daniel

Mar 29

Modal literally doesn’t make sense. Google modal income and come back and talk about this.

Kevin Chadwick

@AstartesKC

Mar 29

It makes perfect sense, so long as you actually know how to crunch data and if you are after Joe Blogs income for various reasons. It is dataset dependent but it isn't difficult! An algorithm is easily designed.