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Originally Posted by jyl
78.6 is not the median life expectancy for people who are 74. You use the life expectancy for the cohort you are looking at. Otherwise you’d conclude that the median person of 79 years old is already dead.
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And 74 is the median of all age groups, not an age. Either talk of people who are 74 or talk of medians. You are mixing apples and oranges.