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foobiekr ◴[] No.41849569[source]
I wonder how much impact there will be on average life expectancy uncovering that a lot of the super-long-lived population examples have been pension fraud.
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potato3732842 ◴[] No.41850494[source]
Those people are statistically irrelevant. Not enough of them to drag the average much one way or the other.
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1. dustyventure ◴[] No.41851221[source]
For every pension fraud that went on that long and took such an obvious risk with continuing to a notable age, I imagine there were hundreds or thousands of shorter frauds.
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2. tired-turtle ◴[] No.41852917[source]
In this case, the “shorter frauds” involve dying near the reported date of death? By your definition, the postulated (unreported) deviation is statistically insignificant.