[SoCal Pubbie]

And did the authors likewise factor out murder, transportation deaths, drug overdoses and other causes of death that either did not exist in the Victorian era or were much more rare? If you’re going to carve out the stats that favor your argument it makes debate a lot easier.

[Svartalfiar]

And did the authors likewise factor out murder, transportation deaths, drug overdoses and other causes of death that either did not exist in the Victorian era or were much more rare? If you’re going to carve out the stats that favor your argument it makes debate a lot easier.

Probably not, because those are an expected part of normal living. The only one they likely ignored is infant deaths because those skew the results so much. Not every manipulation of data is nefarious...