A thought: could the skewed death rate of the 1918 influenza pandemic with a higher toll in the young be in part due to survivorship bias in the elderly of that time, given that far fewer people made it past 50?
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Yes. I've seen the thread. Looks really interesting
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I think he makes a compelling argument that many supercentenarians could be the product of worse record keeping, similar to your point about sub populations
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