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Trollificus's avatar

It would also require the long-needed balls to graduate the value of "estimated year of life saved" differently for 20-year-olds and 95-year-olds. -

Such balls are not in evidence, not in the media, government, the insurance industry, nor academia. (I know, insurance people can and do make such calculations, they're just never used and almost never admitted.)

That is, of course, the slippery slope to end all slippery slopes.

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HBI's avatar

Actuarial data is similar to what you are talking about. I know it is in use bc my dad used to use it in his role supervising BI lit back 40 years ago.

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