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I can't remember where I read it but a large portion of people who are over 100 might be the result of poor record keeping in the past, especially with registra
by tony-allan 2y ago
I can't remember where I read it but a large portion of people who are over 100 might be the result of poor record keeping in the past, especially with registration of births at home.
- therabbithole 2y agoWe know this partly also because when countries introduced mandatory birth registration, there was a sudden drop in people who lived beyond 100 years old. Here's a paper from earlier this year on this: "Supercentenarian and remarkable age records exhibit patterns indicative of clerical errors and pension fraud" Saul Justin Newman https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v3 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v3
- more_corn 2y agoThere was great work this year showing that everything we thought we knew about living to a hundred is likely a lie. https://theconversation.com/the-data-on-extreme-human-ageing-is-rotten-from-the-inside-out-ig-nobel-winner-saul-justin-newman-239023 https://theconversation.com/the-data-on-extreme-human-ageing...