• Krauerking
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    4 months ago

    I think it’s still not obvious that it just means a higher percentage are making it to older ages. If you made it into your 30s your likelihood of living to old age was pretty good.

    I think my argument does make light of how much the average person was dying really young though.

    • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      If you made it into your 30s your likelihood of living to old age was pretty good.

      It may have been ‘pretty good’, but its still markedly worse than what it is now.