{"id":5029,"date":"2014-12-09T14:32:45","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T19:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/?p=5029"},"modified":"2014-12-10T14:43:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T19:43:17","slug":"obituary-average-age-december-8-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/commentary\/obituary-average-age-december-8-2014","title":{"rendered":"Obituary average age. December 8, 2014: 76.24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webliminal.com\/images\/sidepics\/sp28.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"margin-left: 22px; margin-right: 22px;\" src=\"http:\/\/webliminal.com\/images\/sidepics\/cwdata\/sp28.jpg\" alt=\"Swamp Side\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>The average age of those listed in the <strong>twelve<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0obituaries in the <strong>December 8, 2014<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/fredericksburg.com\/News\/obits\/\">Free Lance-Star<\/a> was<strong>\u00c2\u00a076.24<\/strong>. The median was 77\u00c2\u00a0with a sample standard deviation of 10.48.\u00c2\u00a0The ages ranged from 55\u00c2\u00a0to 91.<\/p>\n<p>This is the fourteenth\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, 76.92,63,76.71,70.75,76.24}\u00c2\u00a0at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/\">Wolfram alpha<\/a> is 69.83, up .49 from the previous computations.<\/p>\n<p>Some words in the obituaries that caught my attention:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In his younger days, he once won a seaplane!<\/li>\n<li>He was world champion Top Fuel Dragbike racer in 1979 and held the record for three years.<\/li>\n<li>His amazing sense of humor carried him and his family through many adventures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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 twelve\u00c2\u00a0obituaries in the December 8, 2014 Free Lance-Star was\u00c2\u00a076.24. The median was 77\u00c2\u00a0with a sample standard deviation of 10.48.\u00c2\u00a0The ages ranged from 55\u00c2\u00a0to 91. This is the fourteenth\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, 76.92,63,76.71,70.75,76.24}\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":[1349],"class_list":["post-5029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5029","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=5029"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5041,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5029\/revisions\/5041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}