So, they started to do collecting of data on mortality and they developed something called actuarial science, which is estimating the probability of people living.

他们开始收集死亡率的数据,并且发展出精算学,用来估算人在各年龄段死亡的概率

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The problem is those VAR calculations used historic data and traditional scientific standards of 95% or 99% probability.

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