Wudi@feddit.uk to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 hours agoAlcohol is the root of 62 diseases and a partial cause of dozens morehsph.harvard.eduexternal-linkmessage-square93fedilinkarrow-up1362arrow-down110
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minus-squareDagwoodIII@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·14 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-down1·11 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.