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It can't. Anyone credible is using an age adjusted metric of some sort. YPLL or something like that. Of course none of the activists, journalists or editors
by throwaway0a5e 5y ago
It can't. Anyone credible is using an age adjusted metric of some sort. YPLL or something like that. Of course none of the activists, journalists or editors use those numbers because they are boring and don't grab headlines like "a bajillion deaths" does.
- kbelder 5y agoRight. As a thought experiment, assuming a 75 year lifespan, what if air pollution causes EVERYBODY to die one day earlier than they would have otherwise? Is the death rate 100%? Or is it .00365% (1 / (75 * 365))? But an age-adjusted metric can give non-intuitive results. Thanos' snap, randomly killing 50% of everybody, would have had a 25% lives-lost-equivalent. How you calculate death rate has real consequences in how you evaluate something like Covid.