Daniel ReedersIg Nobel prize awarded to a researcher whose work shows data on longevity is 'rotten from the inside out.'
The so-called Mediterranean diet may be pension fraud.
kolya@engagedpractx I'm mostly surprised that so much science and future projections are supposedly relying on statistical outliers like those few centenarians. Either all those scientists and sociologists are really bad at working with statistics. Or those fakes aren't nearly as important as he makes them out to be.
MarjorieR@kolya @engagedpractx the issue is to what extent, in these areas, pension fraud (pension claims for deceased relatives) generalises to those still under a claimed 100.
@marjolica @engagedpractx filtering for outliers isn't a hard line at 100 of course. but if the deceased are really somewhere in the normal distribution (not the point of this article, but anyway) then I'd think it'd be more of a pension fraud issue than a longevity projection issue, as long as there are still people living in the UK.
@kolya @engagedpractx I doubt it would move the actuarial situation much but clearly their are implications for research into what leads to longevity if we were to draw inferences from recorded longevity areas just where pension fraud is more of an issue.
As my own country (UK) I suspect that the biggest driver of early mortality is the effects of poverty on health and the impact of the deleterious working conditions of the poorest in society.
As my own country (UK) I suspect that the biggest driver of early mortality is the effects of poverty on health and the impact of the deleterious working conditions of the poorest in society.