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Wednesday, December 29, 2010

good men die young

What is good and what is bad? Everything is a concoction of the mind. A thing may be good for you but poison for another. 


People make categorical classifications to make sense of raw data. It is a common thing in every day life.

Did you take into account the "bad" people that die young? The "good" people that live full lives until they die of old age? I'd bet if you average mortality rates of so called good people dying young with overall mortality rates, there would be no statistical significance. And even if there were some, it wouldn't be enough to form a causal relationship with "goodness" and "young" age mortality.

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