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Humans aren't living longer. The average is moving up because they aren't dying early. It's not quite the same thing.
by psychlops 3y ago
Humans aren't living longer. The average is moving up because they aren't dying early. It's not quite the same thing.
- _yb2s 3y agoExactly. I think our cultural norm around thinking about things in terms of averages causes us to grossly misinterpret reality. Averages are rarely a meaningful way to summarize anything.
- signatoremo 3y agoThe study specifically addresses that: “We used e0,t and e65,t to denote life expectancy at birth and at age 65, respectively. By including both indicators in our analysis, we aim to capture the different dimensions of the mortality phenomenon in the different age groups. While e0,t provides the impact of mortality in the infant and child ages, e65,t examines the mortality patterns among the elderly and minimizes the extrinsic factor associated with infant mortality”. So no, it isn’t because of not dying early. Check it out. There’s a lot more to it. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0295842 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...