Statisticle Flummery

WHO's on First?

There is a WHO report widely used in today's debate on health care.  In it, the US health care system is said to rank 37th.  (Unmentioned is that Canada, in the same report, ranked only 30th.)  As usual in these ranking spankings, no mention is ever made of the actual metric on which the rankings were based and how many score points separated them.  When I moved to New Jersey, some 25 years ago, it was widely stated that NJ ranked first in the nation for statewide auto insuranc...