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    Age of the oldest living person, by year [OC]
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    Age of the oldest living person, by year [OC]

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    1. Hazzat on

      Joining all the dots to make a continuous line chart is just confusing. The line should at least be separated by person, although no lines at all and using a bar chart would work just as well.

    3. UsernameFor2016 on

      If it would drop vertically at the time of one persons death to the next record holders current age it would be logical, but gradually falling makes no sense.

    4. dutchpsychologist on

      I wonder if the oldest living person was the same person from 1990 to 1996. Maybe even in general, which of these dots were the same person.

      Edit: living… not loving…

    5. wattafax on

      If we look at the period from 1986 to 1996, how can the line change slope? Was the oldest person from 1986 to 1990 aging slower and the one from 1990 to 1996 aging faster?

    6. lolcrunchy on

      The fact that there are different positive slopes is weird. I’m guessing you’re using exact age including days to plot?

      I recommend two other plots:

      One where you use only the age in years (i.e. 103 instead of 103.47)

      One where you plot every day, using exact age including days, and make it a scatterplot instead of a line plot.

    7. Material_Skin_3166 on

      On average a rise of 1 year over a period of 10 years. That’s quite steep in itself. Thanks for sharing.

    8. cutelyaware on

      Your Wikipedia link is bad, but I’m pretty sure that dependable birth records have been very suspect for the oldest people, and a lot of them like the attention they get for being super old so they often exaggerate.

    10. Latase on

      half of them were probably not as old as stated anyway. some of the nations the oldest person lived in had no proper documentation ~115 years prior. (which is in that timeframe most of the world)

    11. KPSWZG on

      I just want to point out that oldest person on this list Jeanne Louise Calment is not veryfied, as French goverment refused exhumation to confirm if rummors that it was her daughter were true or not. There is a big chance she lied and untill French goverment change its mind (unlikely) i would put her as unveryfied cathegory. And dont go to me with “BuT SHe Is VeRyFieD” she have a birth certyficate but for me there are way to many “holes” in her story so untill i have dna test i will not believe it and the fact France is avoiding it gives me colosal red flag.