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by cozzyd 621 days ago
It's not unbiased noise though. People with the highest likelihood to die soon (elderly men) have different voting preferences than the general public.
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I'm not sure I'm thinking about this correctly, but I'm not sure that it's relevant that elderly men die younger than elderly women. I think it would only be a bias is they were dying at a faster rate, relative to their population size, than other groups. That is, the size of the elderly male population was shrinking compared with the elderly female population.