Comment on US Question. Will the people that have to wait until 70 to get Social Security ever get what they paid in to it back out before they die since men's life expectancy is only 77 now?

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Chobbes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Well, the definition of the mean and median of a sample doesn’t depend on the particular data set, and there’s plenty of non-age related causes of death in the world which would logically skew the distribution to the left! You can look at actuarial tables to see this in action:

www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html

Male life expectancy at birth in this table is 74.12, but you’ll notice that you don’t get to 50% of the population dying until somewhere between the ages of 78 and 79.

This website has a pretty good chart showing the skew for a 2019 dataset:

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