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Please could someone explain the difference between extrapolative methods for improvements in mortality assumptions, vs "alternative methods" i.e. projecting trends in e.g. causes of death, drivers of mortality (such as smoking), incidence and treatment of major diseases?
It seems like the extrapolative methods also use lifestyle choices e.g. smoking and past data to project future improvements, so the two methods sound very similar to me.
Is the difference that the extrapolation method uses the data blindly without consideration for how improvements will change whereas the 'alternative methods' contain more 'thought' e.g. consideration that people in the future can't reduce smoking by the same degree as was done over the past decades?
It seems like the extrapolative methods also use lifestyle choices e.g. smoking and past data to project future improvements, so the two methods sound very similar to me.
Is the difference that the extrapolation method uses the data blindly without consideration for how improvements will change whereas the 'alternative methods' contain more 'thought' e.g. consideration that people in the future can't reduce smoking by the same degree as was done over the past decades?