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minus-squareDagwoodIII@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·22 hours 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-up0arrow-down1·19 hours agoThat’s how averages work. Math.
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.