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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Yup. When I was studying historical economics in college, which was fun as hell, we’d look at expected age at age 20 and compare it to expected age at birth to get a decent estimate of infant mortality. Nowadays they’re about the same, but back then hoo they were very different numbers.

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