[Dragaera] A Teckla thought

[Howard Brazee]

  On 9/14/2010 1:24 PM, Philip Hart wrote:
>> Is this data for newborns?  I don't personally know any people who've made
>> >  it past 80, but they were, naturally, all born many decades earlier.
>> >  (Anecdotes are poor data, of course.)
> Born alive = newborns above.  And these numbers are pretty stable in the
> first world - iirc the biggest change has been reduction in deaths in
> childhood.
I know *lots* of people older than 80 - living in the retirement home 
with my mother and mother-in-law.    I remember being a young adult when 
I didn't come across young children often, then noticing those 
"miniature human beings".   But when I had my own, they were everywhere, 
as my friends were also parents.

There is a tendency to think what we see is universal - which is why 
lots of people assume they are politically in the majority - it's who 
they hang out with.