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Re:France comes to standstill livid workers protest plan to ... by areyousure on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @09:13PM (#35064341)
> The mode (most common) age of death was over 75 in France for men in 1930.

The most common age of death in France, for both men and women, in 1930 was 0.

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Re:France comes to standstill livid workers protest plan to ... by tshaddox on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @10:32PM (#35064888)
Unless the words “men” and “women” imply adulthood, as they do in ordinary conversation.
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Re:France comes to standstill livid workers protest plan to ... by spywaregorilla on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @03:58PM (#35074629)
Pretty much all life expectancy statistics are based on people who are successfully born.
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Re:France comes to standstill livid workers protest plan to ... by areyousure on Saturday March 11, 2023 @01:10PM (#35110912)
Indeed.

An integer age of "0" at death means they died after birth but before age "1".

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