Comment by happymellon

1 year ago

It does if you read it.

Loma Linda residents don't have a notable longer life span than the other residents of California.

The idea wasn't that averaging out the lifespan of all Loma Linda residents, regardless of lifestyle, would yield a higher number than everywhere else. It was that there was an unusually high number of outliers living there, and the question was why.

The CDC's average was purely geographic and irrespective of lifestyle, which is different.