Hm. Guess I'll do some research on how they really do it. I can't say I've seen any superior alternatives. Unfortunately. Given limited resources, there eally isn't any other option than to try for a system that discriminates as fairly as possible, and QALY is pretty well suited for that. There is something disgusting…

The very one. I think they use QALY (quality-adjusted life years, for those not in the know), or some variant, in most European countries. Don't really know about the non-Western world.

Do your respective agencies and institutions use QALY in the US to determine who are ellegible (did I spell that right?) for different kinds of medical treatments and procedures? Although brutal in its utilitarianism, these sorts of scaling methods do have some merit in establishing who gets what, and before whom.

Thanks, that's pretty interesting. I certainly wouldn't want to say rape jokes are off the table because of that study, but I'd be very interested to see some follow-up studies.

The problem with his outburst was that it wasn't funny; he just came off as a racist lunatic.

Are you kidding me? They were both mediocre - at best.

Could you make a list of Lindy's logical fallacies as well?

Could you make a list of Lindy's logical fallacies as well?