{"id":4871,"date":"2014-10-30T13:05:49","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T18:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/?p=4871"},"modified":"2014-10-30T13:05:49","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T18:05:49","slug":"obituary-average-age-october-30-2014-76-92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/commentary\/obituary-average-age-october-30-2014-76-92","title":{"rendered":"Obituary average age. October 30, 2014: 76.92"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webliminal.com\/images\/sidepics\/sp15.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 22px; margin-right: 22px;\" src=\"http:\/\/webliminal.com\/images\/sidepics\/cwdata\/sp15.jpg\" alt=\"Ice on Chesapeake Bay\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>The average age of those listed in the thirteen\u00c2\u00a0obituaries in the <strong>October 30, 2014<\/strong> Free Lance-Star was\u00c2\u00a0<strong>76.92<\/strong>. The median was 81.5\u00c2\u00a0with a sample standard deviation of 16.43.\u00c2\u00a0The ages ranged from 28\u00c2\u00a0to 94.<\/p>\n<p>This is the eleventh\u00c2\u00a0day I&#8217;ve been collecting this data.<br \/>\nThe mean of\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0obituary average ages\u00c2\u00a0 using {77.375,64,74.143, 62.5, 55,66.8333, 74.11,71.27,68.82, 76.92}\u00c2\u00a0at Wolfram alpha is 69.1.<\/p>\n<p>A quote that caught my eye from one of the obituaries:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Bud started his day, whenever he was able, with a visit to Biscuitville. On days when he was not able to go inside, he would use the drive-through. As soon as they heard his voice, they would say &#8220;We have your order, Mr. Bud.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The average age of those listed in the thirteen\u00c2\u00a0obituaries in the October 30, 2014 Free Lance-Star was\u00c2\u00a076.92. The median was 81.5\u00c2\u00a0with a sample standard deviation of 16.43.\u00c2\u00a0The ages ranged from 28\u00c2\u00a0to 94. This is the eleventh\u00c2\u00a0day I&#8217;ve been collecting this data. The mean of\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0obituary average ages\u00c2\u00a0 using {77.375,64,74.143, 62.5, 55,66.8333, 74.11,71.27,68.82, 76.92}\u00c2\u00a0at Wolfram alpha is [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1348,1349],"class_list":["post-4871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-average-age","tag-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4872,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871\/revisions\/4872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}