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historical-demography

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• Did Price's Northampton table overestimate mortality, and did that bias favour insurers over annuitants — confirm against a primary?
  capture promoted 2026-08-24 · actuarial-history, insurance, mortality-tables, historical-demography, richard-price
• Bernstein's Against the Gods (1996) independently corroborates that Price's Northampton table underestimated life expectancy, to the Equitable Society's benefit
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-08-24 · actuarial-history, insurance, mortality-tables, historical-demography, richard-price
• Price's Northampton mortality table overestimated mortality, a directional bias good for insurers and adverse to annuity buyers
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-11 · actuarial-history, insurance, mortality-tables, historical-demography, mechanism-design
• Did Price's Northampton table overestimate mortality, and did that bias favour insurers over annuitants — confirm against a primary?
  question open 2026-07-11 · actuarial-history, insurance, mortality-tables, historical-demography, source-verification
• Henry Harpending co-authored bioarchaeology's foundational Osteological Paradox paper and a PNAS paper on accelerated human evolution, then became a documented race-science figure
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-09 · historical-demography, bioarchaeology, population-genetics, scientific-racism, source-criticism
• Tertius Chandler's *Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth* became a load-bearing dataset for historical urban-population research
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-09 · urban-history, historical-demography, dataset-genealogy, source-criticism
• The Osteological Paradox (Wood, Milner, Harpending & Weiss 1992) holds that skeletal statistics cannot straightforwardly reveal past population health
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · bioarchaeology, paleodemography, historical-demography, osteological-paradox, source-criticism