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by fleitz
5172 days ago
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This doubles median lifespan, not absolute lifespan, it's still impressive but would be much more so if it was doubling max lifespan. edit: Checked the data, interestingly there's a fairly wide range of death in the non-buckyball population (more than 1 year) but the buckyball population all died within 3 months, oddly enough none of the groups overlap, the data looks almost perfect. Will be interesting to see what the results are with more subjects. Full Study: http://extremelongevity.net/wp-content/uploads/C60-Fullerene... |
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* One strange case/rat can modify the maximal or minimal a lot (For example, some kill a rat with a gun or you are "lucky" and get a Methuselah rat.)
* A strange event also can modify the average a lot (If someone kill a rat immediately at the beginning of the experiment, the "new" average is approximately (n-1)/n times the "original" average.
* But some unusual problem doesn't modify the median too much. The median changes from the value of a rat to the value of the next/former rat, which is usually very close. But it doesn't matter how small or big the strange case is, the median is essentially fixed between two values, so it is difficult to modify too much.
The real problem is that 6 is a small number and it is difficult to get good statistical result with only 6 cases.