> Supercentenarian birthdates also exhibit ‘age heaping’ distributional patterns that are strongly indicative of manufactured birth data. Finally, fewer than 15% of exhaustively validated supercentenarians are associated with either a birth certificate or a death certificate, even in populations with over 95% death certificate coverage.
> As such, these findings suggest that extreme age data are largely a result of vital statistics errors and patterns of fraud, raising serious questions about the validity of an extensive body of research based on the remarkable reported ages of populations and individuals.
> As such, these findings suggest that extreme age data are largely a result of vital statistics errors and patterns of fraud, raising serious questions about the validity of an extensive body of research based on the remarkable reported ages of populations and individuals.
huh. need to do some more validation then.