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Howdy to any new readers coming via Storyline. For those who don’t know me, I’m meep, aka Mary Pat Campbell, and I’m a life actuary.
What’s an actuary you ask? We’re professionals who specialize in quantifying aspects of all sorts of risks. What’s a life actuary? That means...
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As you know, being a life actuary, I’m really interested in death. (And yes, the Dominican Republic death stories seem to have fallen off. I guess real news has occurred. Need that constant content.)
I’m really interested in trends, especially in longevity. When I worked at TIAA, being one...
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There’s other death talk around… but I have my own interests.
If you’d like to know my opinion, check this out from 2015. Someone else got more specific, and the point is to de-sensationalize events where people are looking to make a sensation.
If you want to talk...
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Yes, another one. But wait.
Georgia man is 11th Dominican Republic tourist to die in a year
The death of a Georgia man has been confirmed by the US State Department, making him the 11th American tourist to mysteriously die in the Dominican Republic over the past year.
Tracy Jerome Jester Jr.,...
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Okay, it’s obviously not me.
Let’s go to the story!
Westchester Woman Dies In Dominican Republic, Report Says
A Westchester woman has reportedly become the third American to die in the Dominican Republic this month when she stopped breathing while on the operating table during liposuction.
New Rochelle resident Alexandra Medina stopped breathing...
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I’ve seen this story going around, and when I saw Instapundit linked to it, I realized I finally needed to write about this.
Here is the story that has a bullshit claim about retirement and mortality:
From February 2013: Retire at 55 and live to 80; work till you’re 65...
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“Stick with Beer”: Why Counterfeit Booze Might Be Killing People in the Dominican Republic
Of the 10 Americans who have mysteriously died during their trips to the Dominican Republic in the last year, nine showed symptoms commonly associated with methanol poisoning.
Now, both Dominican authorities and the FBI are looking...
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Someone on facebook linked to the Storyline site, and I’ve really enjoyed it.
The concept is very simple — there’s a time series of some sort, based on historical data — generally, there are points for every decade, or maybe every five years. You are given one point on...
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I’m just watching at this point.
Again, this is no longer a statistics argument.
It made the front page of the New York Times… of course I have to blog this.
Crisis Hits Dominican Republic Over Deaths of U.S. Vacationers
The tourism minister grimaced as he read aloud the causes of death in...
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Yeah, more of these.
This time I’m not going to talk stats, because it’s a PR problem and not a stats problem, really. I still haven’t seen a damn thing that is really helpful to the Dominican Republic in their response. I went to the DR tourism board site,...
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