Tag: expectancy

The Gap in Male/Female Life Expectancy Keeps Growing

The life expectancy gap between sexes increased 0.23 years from 2010 to 2019 and 0.70 years from 2019 to 2021. So, a much larger jump has been seen in the last few years compared to the decade prior. From 2010–2019, the biggest contributor to the gap was from unintentional ...

Why Past Life Expectancy Numbers Are Misleading

The Roman Empire was the pinnacle of human civilization in the ancient world. They built roads across Europe, developed large and fast-flowing aqueducts, and planted their standard from Spain to Persia. People still travel by the millions to look upon their architecture with their own eyes and marve...

Observers Expectancy Effect | Robert Rosenthal and Kermit Fode | 1963 | Stanford University.

Imaging being a researcher who just discovered the medication to a certain disease and you decide to try on two separate groups; test and control group. You expect concrete results from the test group rather than the control one. How do you think these expectations might affect the actual experiment...