Comment by jimberlage

Kinda depends on how much you value inductive vs. deductive reasoning, but the authors make the deductive case that:

- There's strong incentives to misreport in these areas (the compelling example from Sardinia was that the person is alive for the purposes of pension fraud, but really dead)

- People who are incentivized to report people being older than they are will do so

And the inductive case relies on data, which is presumed to be totally flawed because of the misaligned incentives.