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An Empirical Razor for Discerning Rare, False, and Faked Phenomena
In an HN discussion of whether or not the supposed oldest person to have ever lived, Jeanne Calment, was a fraud or not, I noted that the one modern social phenomenon that’s been most strongly associated with a reduction in the number of superannuated persons in a population is accurate demographic recordkeeping… See, e.g., Saul Justin Newman, “Supercentenarians and the oldest-old are concentrated into regions with no birth certificates and short lifespans” (2019). ...
https://joindiaspora.com/posts/874e7c10d09c0139a7e5002590d8e506
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