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“Some age” doing a lot of work here. Yeomen in 14th Century England who made it to 20 years old still had a life expectancy of just 48-52 (depending on when in
by truculent 7y ago
“Some age” doing a lot of work here. Yeomen in 14th Century England who made it to 20 years old still had a life expectancy of just 48-52 (depending on when in the century).
Source: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/standards-of-living-in-the-later-middle-ages/07CF2C52840B2D0320A12B3B9ABCE65B https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/standards-of-living-in-...
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- jbay808 7y agoDoesn't that mean that for each one that dies at 30, there may well be another that dies at 70?
- truculent 7y agoLife expectancy is mean not median, and the median wouldn’t work like that either. Of course, some people loved to 70, I think there would be virtually no circumstances where that would be expected (ignoring ad absurdum takes like “age 69 and 364 days”)