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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (44415)	7/28/2010 4:51:42 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Yet ALL large trends --- (particularly large ones involving large human populations as we were talking about here) --- have fluctuations within the data series. Yes, EVEN WITHIN strong-trending data! "All" probably takes things to far, but "most", or even "almost all" would be correct, and that point also applies to this particular trend. But that's not particularly relevant. The trend is not itself a fluctuation, talking about it is not talking about a fluctuation. The issue under discussion is - the "long term trend of people living longer". That isn't a "demographic fluctuation".