XPost: talk.politics.guns

In sci.environment Leroy N. Soetoro <democrat-criminals@mail.house.gov> wrote:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/19/us-states-toxic- sewage-sludge-pfas-farmers
Regulators allow states to continue spreading sludge even as PFAS-tainted substance has ruined livelihoods and poisoned water

...

Water quality is a leading cause of the US's low life expectancy compared
with other developed countries.
The gap is almost 4y -- about the same as the gap between 1st and 3rd
world countries.

The state-by-state data is pretty stark:

Data:
States like: Water Qual Lifex Linear model
(rank; 1==best) (y)
Hawaii 1 81.3 80.894
Massachusetts 8 80.5 80.3623
Minnesota 13.5 80.95 79.9446
Virginia 15 79 79.8307
Rhode.Island 18 79.9 79.6028
North.Dakota 20 79.5 79.4509
Washington 22 79.9 79.299
North.Carolina 24 77.8 79.1471*(+1)
Michigan 27 78.2 78.9193
Louisiana 28.5 77.2 78.8054*(+1sd)
Texas 30 78.5 78.6914
Missouri 32.5 78.75 78.5016
Utah 35.6667 80.1667 78.261*(-1sd)
Wyoming 40.5 78.4 77.894
Oklahoma 45 75.9 77.5522*(-1)
Montana 49.5 78.4 77.2104*(model 1sd too low) (Binned by similar states).

Linear Model:
y = -0.0759501*x + 80.9699
beta in -0.0759501 +- 0.0360172 90% CI
T-test: P(beta<0) = 0.998844
Rank test: calculated Spearman corr = -0.679412
Critical value = 0.601000 2-sided at 1%; reject H0:not_connected
r2 = 0.49630687

I.e. for each drop in rank states on avg have a .076y decline in lifex.
50 ranks == 3.8 years.
Water quality rank predicts around 1/2 (the R2) of state-to-state lifex.
I.e. it is a MAJOR FACTOR.

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