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  • This is a fantastic example of using selective information to mislead people. It‘s completely omitting important details like

    1. France‘s much older population (malnutrition deaths are much more common in the elderly)
    2. Data reliability (France‘s data is very comprehensive, while data from countries with authoritarian governments is less reliable; the IHME tries to (opaquely) compensate for that, but that‘s only possible by imputation and modeling, which is less reliable by definition)
    3. Differences in recording deaths (France has a multiple-cause-of-death recording system, while many other countries only record a single cause; this means malnutrition as a result of another disease is much more likely to be recorded in France)
    4. Ignoring counterexamples (include Germany, the UK, Austria, New Zealand or many other countries with a capitalist system and suddenly it doesn‘t really seem like there‘s any correlation between a country’s system and malnutrition deaths)

    Sorry, but this graphic can only be seen as plain propaganda, if you actually look into the data it‘s based on.