@jillinewell: Child mortality rates skews the average life expectancy in the 1700s, by a lot…

Chris Fair 📚📖 :

I personally have never died before my first birthday. Or any birthday for that matter. In fact, I have never died once in my entire life!

CrimsonKing :

Trying to explain average vs median to people is frustrating!

r4d1oactiv :

MJ Edwards :

So your thesis is modern medicine has not increased life expectancy at all for those past puberty? It’s only made strides in treating infants?

Paul Hannon :

I already knew this! my favorite example is the commonly cited statistic, "75% of accidents happen within 5 miles of your home". what that doesn't take into account is that you drive the 5 miles close to your home twice every trip, and most trips don't go much farther. it's almost a statistical improbability to have an accident farther than 5 miles from your home.

bing6ong :

So you are just wrong. Thats a 15-20 year gap from today

S70N3D 🔻 :

I wish we would use median more often. The amount of situations that would be better represented by the median rather than average is too high, and averages skew perspectives in ways that make people easier to manipulate or mislead

Markymarc :

Why are you assuming this common statistics knowledge is something someone wouldn’t know.

Alex :

Your little Mohawk made me feel seen twin

Jgrant :

That’s why before medical advances, family’s were massive, they only expected to keep half 😂 my grandmother had 12 siblings!

Clayton Cargill :

i knew

Pdiddy :

yes but general life expectancy prior to year 1900 typically saw people live into their 60s. modern technology, food abundance and medical advancements now see us living into our 80s

czasem_Stefan🇩🇪🇵🇱🇬🇧🇮🇹 :

Therefore we always should use median over average

Florcs🐉✨ :

s 🪷 :

I hate having to explain this

Unapologetic Apologist ✝️🇻🇦 :

I thought this was common knowledge but I guess not

Isaac Gabriel :

Thank you! This is my pet peeve when people don’t get this

xaxinona nou :

thank you for the information

ash🌷 :

Clayton already told me this

Muhammad Tayyab4557 :

why are you so fascinating

fizz :

Yes, but two things: 1. It still says something about how much we’ve improved health because less children are dying from preventable disease. 2. It is not «similar to modern day», and people did not make it to «60-70-80» often. Average life expectancy excluding child mortality (5years), was 55 in 1850.

sean winslow :

ya because child mortality makes it so much better right?

SR100 :

Actually I did know that

Birthday Barbie :

same for the first humans, we have always had the same life expectancy, it actually decreased in Victorian times

Uncle Buzz :

I wish more people understood this.