ChristianKl comments on Quantified Risks of Gay Male Sex - Less Wrong

33 Post author: pianoforte611 18 August 2014 11:55PM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 19 August 2014 02:56:51PM 4 points [-]

Whenever you speak of the prevalence I think it would you got to speak about the exact demographic it comes from. The US might have slightly different values than Europe.

Comment author: pianoforte611 19 August 2014 08:59:16PM 5 points [-]

Not just slightly, the HIV prevalence in the UK among MSM is less than 5% using demographic data here and here. And the total HIV prevalence in the UK is relatively high for Europe see here.

I should probably mention this in the OP. I live in the US, and I couldn't exactly obtain a prevalence rate for every single country and every disease. But the US is an outlier with respect to many diseases.