By Philip Galanes A high-ranking colleague at work died recently. It was unexpected; she was in her 50s. Dozens of people in the organization, including the C.E.O., are heaping praise on her and ...
This phenomenon is known as "age-heaping" or "digit preference", or even "age preference". You only have to glance at an Irish population pyramid from 1841 and 1871 to see the apparent anomalies ...