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Hazard Rate

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Colin Wright
Feb 16, 2023
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Brain Lenses
Hazard Rate
In economics, the Hazard Rate is the rate of death for an object or entity at a given age. So a person's statistical likelihood of dying will generally drop following infancy (there are quite a few things that can go wrong right after birth across much of the world), but it will then tick back up over the course of their lives as they engage in riskier behaviors, the biological effects of aging accrue in their bodies, and as they ultimately approach humanity's (current) lifespan ceiling…
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3 years ago · Colin Wright

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