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Average Age Of Coronavirus Fatalities Is 82
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The average age of death in UK ...81.16 years
That's all folks.
That's all folks.
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It's not just about the chances of dying though, Roy.
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//An odd statistic imo and one that everyone in the club tonight thought was unbelievable.//
Not really unbelievable, roy. It is a disease which has a serious impact overwhelmingly on older people. There are very few younger victims to bring the average age of deaths down. When looking at deaths overall there are many among younger people who die from causes that effect all ages, so bringing the average age of death down. The same would be true if you examined deaths from, say, dementia.
Not really unbelievable, roy. It is a disease which has a serious impact overwhelmingly on older people. There are very few younger victims to bring the average age of deaths down. When looking at deaths overall there are many among younger people who die from causes that effect all ages, so bringing the average age of death down. The same would be true if you examined deaths from, say, dementia.
//...what is the spread - standard deviation?//
The SD is irrelevant (and, yes, I'm sufficiently unthick to know what that is and how to calculate it). It would obviously be a very skewed distribution, nothing like "normal" but heavily skewed towards the upper end and so the SD would be pretty meaningless. But what that has to do with the price of fish is anybody's guess. However if you believe it makes you look clever and everybody else thick by introducing it then be my guest.
The SD is irrelevant (and, yes, I'm sufficiently unthick to know what that is and how to calculate it). It would obviously be a very skewed distribution, nothing like "normal" but heavily skewed towards the upper end and so the SD would be pretty meaningless. But what that has to do with the price of fish is anybody's guess. However if you believe it makes you look clever and everybody else thick by introducing it then be my guest.
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// It is a disease which has a serious impact overwhelmingly on older people. //
nope
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And your evidence for that dismissal is.....?
I don't think there's many people around who do not know that the higher age groups suffer the most serious symptoms and the greatest likelihood of death from Covid. You obviously don't. And you call everybody else thick. Is that because you can't help yourself or are you deliberately obnoxious?
// It is a disease which has a serious impact overwhelmingly on older people. //
nope
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And your evidence for that dismissal is.....?
I don't think there's many people around who do not know that the higher age groups suffer the most serious symptoms and the greatest likelihood of death from Covid. You obviously don't. And you call everybody else thick. Is that because you can't help yourself or are you deliberately obnoxious?
Where did uou get the figure of 81.16 from? In a report in The Times to-day, it says,
"The average age of those who have died from coronavirus in England and Wales since the start of the pandemic is 82.4 years old.
Using data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), researchers at the University of Oxford found that the median age of a Covid-19 fatality was slightly higher than the median age of those who died of other causes over the same period, which was 81.5.
The researchers also found that about six in every 1,000 infections now result in death, down from about 30 in every 1,000 in June"
It mentions "median" and "average" but they have different meanings and need not be the same.
The "median" is the middle figure in a list of ordered numbers and the "average" (usually the arithmetic mean) in this case, would be the sum of all the ages divided by the number of fatalities.
"The average age of those who have died from coronavirus in England and Wales since the start of the pandemic is 82.4 years old.
Using data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), researchers at the University of Oxford found that the median age of a Covid-19 fatality was slightly higher than the median age of those who died of other causes over the same period, which was 81.5.
The researchers also found that about six in every 1,000 infections now result in death, down from about 30 in every 1,000 in June"
It mentions "median" and "average" but they have different meanings and need not be the same.
The "median" is the middle figure in a list of ordered numbers and the "average" (usually the arithmetic mean) in this case, would be the sum of all the ages divided by the number of fatalities.
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