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> relative poverty and short lifespan constitute unexpected predictors of centenarian and supercentenarian status, and support a primary role of fraud and error

> relative poverty and short lifespan constitute unexpected predictors of centenarian and supercentenarian status, and support a primary role of fraud and error in generating remarkable human age records So I think for lack of birth certificates I can imagine the underlying process of unregistered people not being aware about their true age. The claim that high poverty and crime rates produce such fraud feels prejudiced. also why would Sardinia be different in that regard compared to Sicily or poor regions on the Italian mainland? Also I would be interested in how many hypothesis these researches tested on the data set and on whether they performed proper adjustments of thresholds (bonferroni correction)

rconti 7y ago
As far as I know, all of these records are maintained at the comune[1] level in Italy, so high crime/corruption in one comume might manifest itself differently from how it does in another comune. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comune https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comune
hn_throwaway_99 7y ago
> The claim that high poverty and crime rates produce such fraud feels prejudiced. I disagree. And note the claim was about "relative poverty and short lifespan". Seems very straightforward reasoning that those in relative poverty with shorter lifespans have much more incentive to falsify their age to be older than they actually are.