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		sebkomianos on July 26, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why aren't the oldest living people getting any ol... This is very interesting, can you point me/us to any explanations about it?

shabble on July 26, 2011 [–]

I'd guess at the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem - Combined distributions tend towards Gaussian (bell-curve)

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