This is incredible. A UCL demographer basically shows that all the ‘Blue Zones’ where people live to very old ages (which have inspired all those diet and whatnot) are a combination of statistical errors, lack of birth certificates and people committing pension fraud! www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/202...
UCL demographer’s work debunking ‘Blue Zone’ regions of exceptional
A study by Dr Saul Justin Newman (Centre for Longitudinal Studies) has won the first-ever Ig Nobel award in Demography at this year’s 34th Ig Nobel Prizes. His work reveals fundamental flaws in the
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September 20, 2024 at 7:49 AM