There's no limit to longevity, says study that revives human lifespan debate

Re:There's no limit to longevity, says study that revives hu... by nonbel on Friday June 29, 2018 @08:02PM (#17428765)

Imagine you keep flipping 10 coins, stopping each once it has come up heads. Eventually all will have come up heads. But if you do this a bunch of times and keep track of how many times you flipped the last coin, there will be a certain number of flips at which the end is most commonly reached.

The "mortality rate" increasing then flattening out is just this curve reaching its peak then declining. The math of this is easy enough to figure out so not sure why there is a mystery amongst biologists about it.

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Re:There's no limit to longevity, says study that revives hu... by nonbel on Saturday June 30, 2018 @09:29AM (#17430813)

Well hopefully one person actually writes the simulation, etc then calculates the hazard rate curve.

I guarantee that once you understand how universal and simple the phenomenon is that's going here on you will be stunned at the ridiculousness of this "lifespan controversy".

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