Re: Slate: The Legend of the Scope Trial

Matt C. <canimal@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> It's a smooth U-shaped curve with a single minimum around age nine
>> or ten.

> This is surprising. I did a lot of stupid and risky things from age
> sixteen to twenty four that I don't do anymore. Seems to me the
> average twentyish guy is at least as stupid and reckless as I was
> then.

> Are you perhaps just talking about death rates from disease?

Nope. All causes.

Accidental death rates are also higher for the elderly, not just
disease death rates.
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