{"id":4962,"date":"2014-11-19T05:09:12","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T10:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/?p=4962"},"modified":"2014-11-19T05:10:24","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T10:10:24","slug":"obituary-average-age-november-18-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/commentary\/obituary-average-age-november-18-2014","title":{"rendered":"Obituary average age. November 18, 2014: 70.75"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webliminal.com\/images\/sidepics\/sp26.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"margin-left: 22px; margin-right: 22px;\" src=\"http:\/\/webliminal.com\/images\/sidepics\/cwdata\/sp26.jpg\" alt=\"Items at river edge\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>The average age of those listed in the <strong>twelve<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0obituaries in the <strong>November 18, 2014<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/fredericksburg.com\/News\/obits\/\">Free Lance-Star<\/a> was\u00c2\u00a0<strong>70.75<\/strong>. The median was 79.5\u00c2\u00a0with a sample standard deviation of 27.8.\u00c2\u00a0The ages ranged from 7\u00c2\u00a0to 102.<\/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, 76.92,63,76.71,70.75}\u00c2\u00a0at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/\">Wolfram alpha<\/a> is 69.34, up .11 from the previous computations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some words in the obituaries that caught my attention:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Leadership is influence&#8211;nothing more and nothing less. If a person is able to influence another to take some course of action, they are a leader. As a follower, nothing makes it easier to follow a person than one who leads by example.<\/li>\n<li>Mack was the last surviving member of a generation of the Vayda (Vida, Vider) family<\/li>\n<li>Theadora enjoyed watching the Yankees and crocheting, and she saved cards.<\/li>\n<li>We were lucky to have had her.<\/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 November 18, 2014 Free Lance-Star was\u00c2\u00a070.75. The median was 79.5\u00c2\u00a0with a sample standard deviation of 27.8.\u00c2\u00a0The ages ranged from 7\u00c2\u00a0to 102. 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, 76.92,63,76.71,70.75}\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-4962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-average-age","tag-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962","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=4962"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4965,"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962\/revisions\/4965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}