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Re:Life Expectancy Among European Scholars from the 16th to ... by shawabawa3 on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @08:21AM (#26646259)
You are picking only people who's life work means they are remembered for 2000 years

That's surely going to be a huge source of bias, because obviously people who lived longer were more likely to have done enough to be remembered

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Re:Life Expectancy Among European Scholars from the 16th to ... by amelius on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @09:21AM (#26646916)
There's probably some other bias here as well, because people doing intellectual work in those times probably had more privileges, more wealth, etc.
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Re:Life Expectancy Among European Scholars from the 16th to ... by jfengel on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @04:11PM (#26652469)
They're also going to be more male, meaning they didn't die in childbirth, a serious cause of death for women through most of history. And not males in warfare, a major cause of death for young men through most of history.
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