DatumPoint5
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. 9 die at 100 yo and 1 dies at 10 yo. The average age of death = 910/10 or 91 years old. So, 9 died "above average" and 1 died "below average."
Just fyi, I believe in this particular situation where you have a set of data-points that has an extreme "outlier" you would have to use the median to describe the middle of the dataset and NOT the average (or mean).
Google - Average, Mean, Median
Edit:
Sorry, I did not see Independent's post until just now.
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