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My friend from South Korea explained that to me. It's wild. 

If researchers are just using government stats, they might be finding a completely meaningless 1.5 year difference in life expectancy.

Undisciplined

Haha, that'd be dumb, but never rule out stupidity to explain things :)

Fun fact, if you're born in December in Korea, you'll be 1 at birth and turn 2 on the first of January. A 1 month old will be two years old.

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science

The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out

It would be funny if some of this just had to do with the East Asian tradition of counting newborns as 1, rather than 0 like we do in the West.

Even I doubt it's that dumb, but sometimes researchers miss really obvious things.