... statistically
Large amounts of data are useful, the more data you collect about things the more useful that data becomes and the more predictions you can make. Well, yes and no, its what you do with that data that counts, you can get the numbers to show you pretty much whatever you want if you cherry pick, ignore external factors or mangle it in the right way.
Here's an example, In recent years the number of people who die each year in the UK is falling, therefore there must reach a point where people will live forever. I'm going to ignore all other factors than just looking at the raw data to prove this.
Here's a graph showing the number of people who die each year in the UK:
The red line is a trend line based on the supplied data, its sloping downwards, we can extrapolate from this line to find out where it reaches 0 i.e. nobody dies in that year:
The trend line crosses the 0 mark in the year 2056. Therefore if you live another 45 years you will live forever.
Data Source - Office for National Statistics
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