Originally Posted by
RChung
Further, there's a lot of active research discussion going on about data quality for these older survivors. This is the kind of in the weeds research which explains why the stuff I do in my day job is arcane within a field that is obscure).
I can't remember the name of the scientist who said, regarding an asian population with extremely long lifespans, that they weren't good at surviving to old age so much as they were really bad at counting.
Stephen Jay Gould (of course)