ext_149571 ([identity profile] ectropy.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] moominmolly 2009-11-06 02:12 pm (UTC)

For the love of intellectual honesty, please don't use the term "life expectancy at birth". It's a meaningless statistically-derived value, like trying to tie heart-attack rate to blue-jean-wearing rate (which, btw, aligns quite nicely).

Better determinants would be the separated values for "live births that live to age 12" and "average life-expectancy from age 12".

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