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Re:Medieval Cambridge skeletons reveal injuries to manual la... by bt1a on Monday February 01, 2021 @11:05AM (#25989838)
I find it difficult to compare these two sets of figures considering you're looking for fractures at any point in life on the skeletons, and for the study, the people were only followed for a median of 3 years (no need to say 3.0 for median).
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Re:Medieval Cambridge skeletons reveal injuries to manual la... by awhitby on Monday February 01, 2021 @12:42PM (#25990997)
It's off topic but there may indeed be a need to say 3.0 rather than 3 for median - the use of a median is orthogonal to the choice of precision.

Consider the median of: 2.9, 3.0, 3.1 years.

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Re:Medieval Cambridge skeletons reveal injuries to manual la... by ghaff on Monday February 01, 2021 @11:17AM (#25989954)
And while they were apparently counting fractures that had healed, I assume that's an imperfect exercise for relatively minor, clean fractures from many years prior.

I assume a pretty good portion of today's population gets a fracture on a limb at some point in their lives.

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