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Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't the criterion be that the probability of death is the same between 80-90, 90-100, and so on (for example) to say that hum
by vaishnavsm 4y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't the criterion be that the probability of death is the same between 80-90, 90-100, and so on (for example) to say that humans stop aging after 80?
Saying that your chance of dying is 50% after 80 != saying it's the same consistently after 80?
- zamfi 4y agoI think the parent poster meant "annual chance of dying after 80" as in, for any year 80+, you have a 50% chance of dying that year: it doesn't go up each year, so you don't "age" in that sense.
- jewayne 4y agoBut this is not true. The life expectancy for an 80 year-old Caucasian American woman is over 9 years. The life expectancy a 90 year-old Caucasian American woman is less than 5 years.