And there is their error. Their "source" is the same Democrat propaganda bot who got fired last week for saying "Republicans have no problem partying while black people drown".
The average number of testicles per person in the US is close to 1.00.
I agree that life expectancies for people reaching age 65 have not changed that much since the 60s.
But I also think that the Death Panels can fix SocSec and Medicare financials pretty quickly.
“In both cases, tax increases and life expectancies, one can get a better idea of the situation if one knows the median as well and the average or mean”
I always look for the median (the middle) in all statistics as it actually expresses what most people think of when they see “average” - half above and half below - but that’s not the average, that’s the median.
The author says the meidan is usually not done because it requires information that the average does not. But, when the organizations that produce so many publicly noteworthy “averages” are the same institutions that have the data, and have enough of it to do a median, it’s simply an institutional excuse that it is more difficult. It’s usually intitutional and journalistic laziness.
They are fine with the sheeple thinking an average is the mid-point that it is not.