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Caloric restriction (extreme dieting) is well known to increase lifespan. Intermittent fasting shows tentative promise.
Would a too extreme diet do permanent harm, or is our body used to bouts of near starvation? The survivor bias makes sense, those that would have died at 65-75 years maybe died then when tested by the hardships.
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There was a recent story about how the inmates in the camps received the best healthcare available in German society at the time. That would certainly explain why so many years later we still hear about "new" survivors. I’d love a link to this “recent story” which sounds distressingly like a very old and discredited claim of Holocaust deniers.
Unfortunately, a quick peek through GP's post history does suggest that's quite possibly their source.
Yups, all trademark comments of a wandering soul trying to "humanize" the holocaust. Please don't let HN become reddit
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Caloric restriction (extreme dieting) is well known to increase lifespan. Intermittent fasting shows tentative promise.
This is just a guess, but I'd expect that most people who survived the camps did not decide to continue afterwards to eat like they were still there. Wouldn't that limit the longevity benefits?
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Caloric restriction (extreme dieting) is well known to increase lifespan. Intermittent fasting shows tentative promise.
Would a too extreme diet do permanent harm, or is our body used to bouts of near starvation? The survivor bias makes sense, those that would have died at 65-75 years maybe died then when tested by the hardships.
Yes, which is why anorexia is so harmful, and why early intervention for anorexia is so important.
I learned to program JavaScript more confidently on my first Afghanistan deployment. Being able to work offline without references or tools was important when I was constantly on the move. Even to this day portability and performance are the things I value most in an application. Most other JavaScript developers I have encountered in the real world need a mountain of third party libraries and frameworks with a fixed internet connection for the simplest of things.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2012/aug/06/eat-fas...
Kind of obvious but can it be simply a selection bias? The weakest died in the camps, the survivors would be the healthier, stronger, and therefore have a longer life expectancy than average.
This is called survivorship bias, not selection bias.
Whereas selection bias is when some external factor causes analysis to be focused on a specific subset of the broader population. For instance, survey responses reflect the selection bias of people who were willing to take that survey. Reviews on user-generated review sites are biased towards the people that felt strongly enough to leave a review. The example in this post is selection bias. This is not the opinions of views of individual survivors as in survivorship bias. Rather the study is inherently limited to selecting those that were healthy and fit enough to survive the Holocaust.
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This is called survivorship bias, not selection bias.
Survivorship refers to people that engaged in an activity with a chance of "survival" (which could mean actual life or death situations, or things like interviews, school applications, etc.) and did survive have a biased view towards the probability of surviving that activity - usually overestimating the chances of "survival". A classic example is that you might not want to trust it when a professor in a competitive…
>Survivorship bias or survival bias is the logical error of concentrating on the people or things that made it past some selection process and overlooking those that did not, typically because of their lack of visibility. This can lead to false conclusions in several different ways. It is a form of selection bias.