Only if you insist on using bad statistical methods. Averaging high infant mortality into the rest of the population leads to misleading claims like that. Do yo

Only if you insist on using bad statistical methods. Averaging high infant mortality into the rest of the population leads to misleading claims like that. Do you really think most people dropped dead at 36? "For example, a Roman Life Expectancy table at the University of Texas shows that at birth the life expectancy was 25 but if one lived to the age of 5 one's life expectancy jumped to 48." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#Interpretation_of_life_expectancy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#Interpretation_...