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by throwawayhhakdl 2304 days ago
What bothers me is the difficulty in interpreting such numbers because they’re not normalized to health.

E.g. dropping sperm counts in men. Is that dropping in all men? Or is it a side effect of rising obesity in enough men to dent the average?

Is the mortality 1/500 here because a good health 30 year old has a 1/500 chance of dying? Or because the 1/100 30 year olds with poor health have a 1/5 chance of dying?