>The failure rate of a human is not constant over the lifetime and just taking a figure at the age of 25 will get you nowhere.
Steve, I think you'll find that's a total red herring. That's because if you measure failure rates of almost anything, you will find that the failure rate varies over their life time, increasing as they get older, often very dramatically in the final stages ... Now we can argue about "life-time" and such, but the point that Mike S was making that lifetime != inverse MTBF is still very true, and the example wasn't all that bad either. I can't think of many manufactured things that don't have a lifetime that is unrelated to MTBF figures early in their life. Dave _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
