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Survivorship bias.

• blondin 7y ago
  how so?
  • quaquaqua1 7y ago
    For every 1 person who lives an unhealthy lifestyle and lives a long time, there are untold millions who dont
    • asjw 7y ago
      Still in some countries many more get old than others And I'm talking about countries with the same level of wealth (more or less) Japan has 2.5 times more centenaries as a percentage of the population than US
    • blondin 7y ago
      well, you are right and i get what you are saying. but in the current situation most people in that age range are dying. he survived. isn't it worth talking about or giving it a thought?
• asjw 7y ago
  If we are measuring survival, surviving is not a bias, it's a data point Without taking into account genes can you explain why Japan has 54 centenaries every 100k people, France 34, Italy 33 and US only 22?
  • bentcorner 7y ago
    Supercentenarians and the oldest-old are concentrated into regions with no birth certificates and short lifespans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v1 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v1 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20625547 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20625547
    • asjw 7y ago
      Sardinia contains only 1/60 of Italian population. The post you linked does not look very reliable Moreover I'm not talking about super centenaries, but basic life expectancy People who live more in general have probably better genes, we don't care how many die if we are counting those that survive longer than average In US life expectancy is very low for being a developed country And we can't really say that crime rate or frauds are higher in Okinawa than in Los Angeles Nobody would believe that Btw, what about France?
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