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Everytime someone posts the correct fact that average lifespan has drastically increased in the past century someone will wrongly claim that it is only because
by keewee7 4y ago
Everytime someone posts the correct fact that average lifespan has drastically increased in the past century someone will wrongly claim that it is only because we got better at lowering child morbidity. They might even link to the garbage BBC article that only looks at data for rich privileged people who did indeed live long lives centuries ago. However the rich and privileged of old times were not representative of the general population.
Why do people so aggressively deny that things have been getting better in the past 100 years?
- ElFitz 4y agoPlease do enlighten me as to how and where I aggressively stated anything here. In the meantime, I will gladly point out that anyone who actually read said garbage article couldn’t have helped but notice how the author, very quickly establishes the difference between life expectancy and lifespan, before also pointing out how the data presents multiple huge biases.