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Re:How the US Air Force Ditched the Average and Saved Lives by elephant_burger on Saturday July 02, 2022 @06:41AM (#31957836)
To your point, the global “average” life expectancy since the 1700s to today visualized https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy?tab=chart...
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Re:How the US Air Force Ditched the Average and Saved Lives by bigDinosaur on Saturday July 02, 2022 @06:45AM (#31957860)
How to mislead with data 101!
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Re:How the US Air Force Ditched the Average and Saved Lives by jwlit on Saturday July 02, 2022 @07:07AM (#31958000)
Indeed, though see the article linked at the bottom of that one, which goes into more of the nuance and has distribution curves etc: https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy-how-is-it-calcula...
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