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It is a little young, the impression is right. Statistics is hard. "Life expectancy" being an average includes all of the reasons to die when you're young, an
by colechristensen 2y ago
It is a little young, the impression is right. Statistics is hard. "Life expectancy" being an average includes all of the reasons to die when you're young, and young deaths have a large effect on the average.
The most frequent age at death is in your mid to late 80s. I'd like to post the statistic on the 25th and 75th percentile of age at death or maybe 40th, 60th, but I can't readily find the data with the amount of effort I'm willing to put in.
Here's a histogram though
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Histogram-of-estimated-number-of-deaths-per-one-year-age-intervals-Probability-density_fig2_281513046 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Histogram-of-estimated-n...
- madcaptenor 2y agoA rare example of a naturally occurring left-skewed distribution.
- sophacles 2y agoNot that naturally - until fairly recently it was bimodal. Fortunately we've dramatically reduced the number of infant and childhood deaths in the last ~100 years.