Wudi@feddit.uk to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days agoAlcohol is the root of 62 diseases and a partial cause of dozens morehsph.harvard.eduexternal-linkmessage-square182linkfedilinkarrow-up1520arrow-down112
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minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down3·17 days agoBack when life expectancy was 45.
minus-squareDagwoodIII@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·17 days agoPopular misconception. There were a lot of people who never made it out of childhood, which skews the average down. But if you made it to adulthood, you had a pretty good chance of making it to 65 or so.
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·17 days agoThat’s how averages work. Math.
minus-squareNocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·16 days agoThat’s also why averages aren’t a good measure of a lot of things and are misleading.
Back when life expectancy was 45.
Popular misconception.
There were a lot of people who never made it out of childhood, which skews the average down.
But if you made it to adulthood, you had a pretty good chance of making it to 65 or so.
That’s how averages work. Math.
That’s also why averages aren’t a good measure of a lot of things and are misleading.