Literacy is 28%. Do you think most Afghanis have any idea of why we're there?
Literacy is 28%. Do you think most Afghanis have any idea of why we're there?
Erm, surely this country is just one age? I'm sure it's older than 18, too.
1) Median age doesn't work like that
2) Just because people can't read/write doesn't mean they aren't told about whats going on.
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Data quality issue? Looks like it.
there are plenty who don't know who we are or why we are there. ive been to parts of Afghanistan where they didnt even know they had their own government. just farmers in the middle of nowhere.
i do like to think that with the schools we built and by parterning so much with the Afghan army that the next generation will be smart enough to turn that country around and keep the taliban out.
Cyrill wrote:
1) Median age doesn't work like that
If the median age is 18, than 50% of people are = 18.
So half of the people were
you are an idiot
yeah, because i'm sure the birth vs death rate and immigration vs emigration rate hasn't changed at all since 2001.
everybody is GTFO of that country. the people with the fewest kids can leave first, so the ration of kids to adults rises.
Median basically means middle; half the population is above, half the population below the median age.
You are thinking of 'mode' , most common value, in this case age.
Dronz wrote:
Literacy is 28%. Do you think most Afghanis have any idea of why we're there?
Among males, 43%.
Among females, 12.6%.
That's better than such intellectual powerhouses as Mali,
Niger, South Sudan and Burkina Faso. But that's it.
Before the bigots start responding, it doesn't appear to be anything to do with religion, as the country with the highest Muslim population has 93% literacy.
You need to work on your math before you can comment on anyone\'s literacy.
Right now half of the people are 18 or younger if the median age is 18.
If no one was born or no one died since 9/11 then yes, half of the people would have been 6 or younger at the time.
I think quite a number of adult Afghans have been killed by Americans since then so it is more likely the median age was higher than 18 back then before they were Bush whacked.
What are you having so much trouble with? If half the country is 18 or younger, then half the country that is alive TODAY was under age 6 on 9/11.
I have read elsewhere that a lot of Afghans don't really understand the reason for the war, and/or they think 9/11 was faked.
Ho Hum wrote:
What are you having so much trouble with? If half the country is 18 or younger, then half the country that is alive TODAY was under age 6 on 9/11.
I have read elsewhere that a lot of Afghans don't really understand the reason for the war, and/or they think 9/11 was faked.
So do 36% of Americans.
No you dummy.
And you criticize their literacy?
If the median age is 18 in 2013, does than mean that 1/2 the people were under age 0 in 1995?
There is something called mortality in our universe.
Cow Man wrote:
No you dummy.
And you criticize their literacy?
If the median age is 18 in 2013, does than mean that 1/2 the people were under age 0 in 1995?
There is something called mortality in our universe.
Nicely done.
asdsdfasdf wrote:
Cow Man wrote:No you dummy.
And you criticize their literacy?
If the median age is 18 in 2013, does than mean that 1/2 the people were under age 0 in 1995?
There is something called mortality in our universe.
Nicely done.
Except that not really.
The OP's claim is that half of the current population in Afghanistan was 6 years old or younger when the events of 9/11 happened. He is correct in this. His thread title, while it could be interpreted in a number of ways, is also correct since one correct interpretation of the thread title is exactly this.
That you interpret the thread title to mean something different is your problem, not the OP's.
I suppose you may be exercising sarcasm, but he's not saying that the majority of the population of Afghanistan in 2001 were small children.
He's saying that of the people there right now, half of them are 18 or younger, and therefore all of those people could have been no older than 6 in 2001. Therefore, the implication is, that half of the current population of Afghanistan has no first hand recollection of that time period.
Cow Man wrote:
No you dummy.
And you criticize their literacy?
If the median age is 18 in 2013, does than mean that 1/2 the people were under age 0 in 1995?
There is something called mortality in our universe.
Yes, it means that 1/2 of the current population , were not born yet ("under age 0") in 1995.
What else do you think it could mean? Dummy.
Cow Man wrote:
No you dummy.
And you criticize their literacy?
If the median age is 18 in 2013, does than mean that 1/2 the people were under age 0 in 1995?
There is something called mortality in our universe.
Is this a joke? You should probably think your posts through before insulting other people's intelligence
[quote]Except Man wrote:
[quote]asdsdfasdf wrote:
[quote]Cow Man wrote:
The OP's claim is that half of the current population in Afghanistan was 6 years old or younger when the events of 9/11 happened. He is correct in this.
Nice try but sorry. But the title is "1/2 the people there were younger than 6 on 9/11. Only one way to interpret that properly. And he is clearly wrong