{"id":4909,"date":"2014-11-02T09:33:35","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T14:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/?p=4909"},"modified":"2014-11-02T09:38:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T14:38:10","slug":"obituary-average-age-november-2-2014-80-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/books\/obituary-average-age-november-2-2014-80-64","title":{"rendered":"Obituary average age. November 2, 2014: 80.64"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webliminal.com\/images\/sidepics\/sp20.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"margin-left: 22px; margin-right: 22px;\" src=\"http:\/\/webliminal.com\/images\/sidepics\/cwdata\/sp20.jpg\" alt=\"Muir Woods, California\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>The average age of those listed in the <strong>fifteen<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0obituaries in the <strong>November 2, 2014<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/fredericksburg.com\/News\/obits\/\">Free Lance-Star<\/a> was\u00c2\u00a0<strong>80.64<\/strong>. The median was 83\u00c2\u00a0with a sample standard deviation of 11.49.\u00c2\u00a0The ages ranged from 56\u00c2\u00a0to 9992.<\/p>\n<p>This is the thirteenth\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}\u00c2\u00a0at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/\">Wolfram alpha<\/a> is 70.1.<\/p>\n<p>Quotes from\u00c2\u00a0some of the obituaries that caught my eye:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Her other loves included her many animals: dogs, cats, raccoons, peacocks, chickens and possum; all plants and flowers; decoupage; bridge; Christmas; shopping; music and the ocean. She had a joy for life, and often said she wished she could &#8220;do it all over again.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>This event will be open to all who wish to come and pay respects to Lewis and give Alice a hug.<\/li>\n<li>Sydnor was known affectionately as &#8220;Hop&#8221; by his many friends because as a youth, he contracted polio, a dreaded disease of the time, which left him with a distinct limp. [This struck me because we have been listening to a reading of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0052HKL4G\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B0052HKL4G&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=webliminalbooksi&amp;linkId=TATLXTUFK3HMCVVN\">Nemesis<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=webliminalbooksi&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0052HKL4G\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0by Philip Roth in which the polio epidemic of 1944 \u00c2\u00a0Newark, NY serves as backdrop and the source of a major theme in the story.]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\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 fifteen\u00c2\u00a0obituaries in the November 2, 2014 Free Lance-Star was\u00c2\u00a080.64. The median was 83\u00c2\u00a0with a sample standard deviation of 11.49.\u00c2\u00a0The ages ranged from 56\u00c2\u00a0to 9992. This is the thirteenth\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}\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":[5,6],"tags":[1348,1349],"class_list":["post-4909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-commentary","tag-average-age","tag-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4909"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4912,"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions\/4912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}