A 21 year old Ph.D. student here @ U.Mich mentioned to me an odd statistic that he discovered while in High School:
1. There is a statistically significant correlation threshhold among male suicide committers/victims: US$18,000. This is roughly a little more than twice the USA poverty threshold. Today this would probably be more like US$20,000-21,000 in the USA.
http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/05poverty.s
Biblical Application ==> To me this indicates that Jesus was 100% right when he told the rich young ruler to "Go, sell all that you have & give to the poor." The rich young guy would have relieved himself of much unneeded stress by reducing overhead & by sharing with others ... not to mention the treasures that would wait in years to come!!
2. He also noted that that countries which share the same currency (U.S. & Panama) or those which have a fixed exchange rate (As the U.S. & China did historically.) are more likely to trade than those which have high fluctuation in their exchange rates.
Missiological application: ==> Intra-European Missionaries may be more able to deal with things there than US-European missionaries due to the ups and downs of the dollar-Euro.
Peace,
Mert
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In response to:
Book Notes by David Mays
http://www.davidmays.org
THE WORLD IS FLAT: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
Thomas L. Friedman, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005, 488 pp.
ISBN 0-374-29288-4
While it covers a surprisingly broad range of topics, it is an economic perspective and the world is bigger than economics.
1. There is a statistically significant correlation threshhold among male suicide committers/victims: US$18,000. This is roughly a little more than twice the USA poverty threshold. Today this would probably be more like US$20,000-21,000 in the USA.
http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/05poverty.s
Biblical Application ==> To me this indicates that Jesus was 100% right when he told the rich young ruler to "Go, sell all that you have & give to the poor." The rich young guy would have relieved himself of much unneeded stress by reducing overhead & by sharing with others ... not to mention the treasures that would wait in years to come!!
2. He also noted that that countries which share the same currency (U.S. & Panama) or those which have a fixed exchange rate (As the U.S. & China did historically.) are more likely to trade than those which have high fluctuation in their exchange rates.
Missiological application: ==> Intra-European Missionaries may be more able to deal with things there than US-European missionaries due to the ups and downs of the dollar-Euro.
Peace,
Mert
--
In response to:
Book Notes by David Mays
http://www.davidmays.org
THE WORLD IS FLAT: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
Thomas L. Friedman, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005, 488 pp.
ISBN 0-374-29288-4
While it covers a surprisingly broad range of topics, it is an economic perspective and the world is bigger than economics.
