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Yeah, that’s exactly the point. Billions of people with thousands (millions?) dying each day, leads to a pretty continuous curve, not one with gaps at the tail.
by blobbers 5y ago
Yeah, that’s exactly the point. Billions of people with thousands (millions?) dying each day, leads to a pretty continuous curve, not one with gaps at the tail.
- vidarh 5y agoWould you not expect gaps at the tail if the likelihood of survival past that point is non-zero but low enough and the population being fed into it is small enough? There are tens of millions of people dying each year, but there single digit numbers of 110+ year olds dying each year. You would expect discontinuities and variations from small random events. A single person slipping in a shower would be enough to mess up that curve.
- oblio 5y ago> Yeah, that’s exactly the point. Billions of people with thousands (millions?) dying each day, leads to a pretty continuous curve, not one with gaps at the tail. Many, many of those billions don't have their ages tracked correctly.
- barrkel 5y agoYou should expect more variance at the tails of a distribution because the numbers are much lower.