Where we donate vs. Diseases that kill us

dragonnards · 2014-08-27T04:55:31+00:00

This chart is pretty much unreadable. Belongs in /r/dataisugly

andrewbarnhill · 2014-08-27T04:04:28+00:00

In all fairness, the cure to the top three that kill us is to not be fat.

JohnKimble111 · 2014-08-27T02:47:16+00:00

Would have been more interesting to see the fundraising figures over say a decade or two.

Next to nothing was spent on prostate cancer years ago, whereas breast cancer spending has been high for decades now.

One reason cancer charities give for failing to spend money researching prostate cancer is that there's a considerable lack of understanding due to the failure to spend money on research in the past. I.e. they're discriminating against men today because they discriminated against them yesterday too! Therefore, at present, diverting disproportionate funds to prostate cancer would be a good thing because of past longstanding neglect of its victims.

defgh · 2014-08-27T06:28:09+00:00

Sauce on this infrografik? There's that V that looks like a logo in the bottom-right corner, but I don't recognize it.

Edit: woops nevermind. Here is the original article.

Also, a comment from /r/interestingasfuck/ where this was posted 10 hours ago:

I think this poster is very misleading. The key seems to refer to money raised for single events, like the AIDS ride. In 2011, the US spent nearly 17 BILLION on AIDS research from donors and government funding.

I'm not sure these numbers are very useful.

And to a user's earlier post - YES, Komen is a horribly inefficient charity. I won't give them a dime and my wife has breast cancer.

-/u/jmc99

carbonnanotube · 2014-08-27T04:16:34+00:00

As per the ice bucket challenge, ALS is one of those "orphan" conditions that private industry does not have much incentive to research on its own.

So I cannot criticize that ratio given that without funding it is a condition too rare to be profitable to cure.

masterrod · 2014-08-27T04:08:34+00:00

Clearly Americans only care about sex..

Prostate and Breast Cancer.

themysteriousdoctorx · 2014-08-27T04:53:33+00:00

I could have realized the rest of them, but, just based on all the attention suicide gets, that there would have been more money raised focusing on it. Guess the people who talk about it feel like they're doing enough with just that.

bluper · 2014-08-27T06:10:14+00:00

I gotta say I'm surprised that prostate cancer's $/death ratio is better than breast cancer's. I assumed breast cancer's fundraising was blowing everything else out of the water. I realize that one reason for this is that there is such a good test to detect prostate cancer early, but I'm still surprised how much money they raised for it.

Roguta · 2014-08-27T06:19:56+00:00

Is it just me or are the circle sizes completely random?

You can probably fit 10 of the purlple 54.1M circles in the 257.85M pink one.

galtthedestroyer · 2014-08-27T08:36:06+00:00

They also forgot lung cancer. Iirc, more women die of lung cancer than breast cancer yet much more money is raised for breast cancer.

Yup: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&ei=MZj9U_OPLe7jsASnqIKQCg&url=http://www.lung.org/lung-disease/lung-cancer/resources/facts-figures/lung-cancer-fact-sheet.html&cd=1&ved=0CB0QFjAA&usg=AFQjCNFHyH-DPoqTg2hEIlm-hBy--2kFiQ&sig2=Xz37m3FqVI2e7hBpu6N0Bw

StarHarvest · 2014-08-27T10:46:17+00:00

Wait, I was told in high school that prostate cancer kills more than breast cancer. Is that not true?

Champigne · 2014-08-27T19:18:46+00:00

So what are the implications this graph has on men's rights? I assume you're pointing out the fact that breast cancer raises a lot more money and mainly affects women. While there's much less risk, men can also develop breast cancer. I think the discrepancy between the amount of funds raised really lies in the effectiveness of the organizations putting on these events to raise money. Susan G. Komen Foundation is a HUGE organization and their Race for the Cure is pretty well known across the country and brings in a lot of donations.

TracyMorganFreeman · 2014-08-27T19:59:13+00:00

The NCI estimates around 29,000 die from prostate cancer each year, not 21,000.

akboy42 · 2014-08-27T07:14:38+00:00

Can anyone tell me how accurate this is?

wtf81 · 2014-08-27T11:48:58+00:00

I don't get it? Prostate cancer research was number two.

derpderpflimflam · 2014-08-27T13:35:01+00:00

This shows most people support whatever is trendy.

speedisavirus · 2014-08-27T15:22:48+00:00

People freak out on me when I tell them that throwing money at breast cancer is a waste since there are so many more diseases that need research and they have more than enough money for that disease. There are diseases...that you know...affect more people and more than one demographic.

forensic_freak · 2014-08-27T15:25:37+00:00

This is a terrible graph. According to this Movember killed 21,176 people. /r/dataisugly

intensely_human · 2014-08-27T18:40:48+00:00

How the fuck do I read this??

edit: Okay I figured it out. The color on the left set of bubbles matches up to the color on the right set of bubbles.

This would be so much easier to interpret as a scatter chart. Also TIL google docs sucks at making charts compared to excel. But here's what the data looks like as a scatter chart: http://imgur.com/fSAyOeu

Sorry the axes suck and everything. Gdoc's charts just kinda blow

XKG34719 · 2014-08-27T01:47:06+00:00

meh. Of the top three "diseases that kill us" -- heart disease, COPD, and diabetes -- all three are lifestyle diseases. You get heart disease by sitting around on your ass eating cheetos. You get COPD by sitting around on your ass eating cheetos and smoking. You get diabetes by sitting around on your ass and eating cheetos and candy bars.

The fact of the matter is, to a great degree, getting those diseases (excepting Type I diabetes) is a lifestyle choice. I don't know about you, but I can't get too excited about donating my hard-earned money to save the life of some sorry ass who clearly didn't give a shit about his in the first place.

Title	Where we donate vs. Diseases that kill us
Author	AlphaWookie
Upvotes	262
Comments	83
Date	August 27, 2014 12:50 AM UTC (11 years ago)
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