For example, in response to the arrival of the Boomer generation, which is proportionately
larger than the rest of the population, society invested heavily in: maternity wards as they arrived; elementary schools as they reached school age; colleges and universities as they approached adulthood; and new retirement models as Boomers approach 60 years of age.
Nutritionists determine EARs for thirteen different populations, defined by age and gender, because different population groups have different nutritional requirements: Young boys need more calories than seniors, while women of childbearing age should consume more folic acid
than the rest of the population needs, for example.
«It was a lot easier to tell who the influencers were, because they were so distinctly
different than the rest of the population,» explains Kristin Jones, senior account executive at Los Angeles — based Trendera, an agency that, like Trend Hunter, employs data in its market research.
Freireich lost a parent and helped cure childhood leukemia but, as Gladwell mentions in passing, prisoners are also two to three times more likely to have lost a
parent than the rest of the population.
Lee cited a study of Washington State incarcerated addicts that found they have much higher chance of dying of drug overdose, trauma, violent death, or even suicide in the two weeks after leaving
jail than the rest of the population.
Dr Zlotta said «We found that in those men with prostate cancer treated by surgery or radiation, who had these inherited gene variant mutations had a three-fold increase in the risk of treatment failure, which means that after treatment, they were three times more likely to have the cancer
recurring than the rest of the population.
Their results show that 20 - year - old men, after their first attempted suicide, had a remaining life expectancy that was a full 18 years
shorter than the rest of the population; the corresponding figure for women was 11 years.
Much who works in London appeared much busier, then the rest of Great Britain, for example, the middle London citizen wakes up on 44 minutes before,
than rest of population of Great Britain.
Additionally, according to media reports, approximately 1,000 undocumented immigrants continued to drink poisoned water for considerably longer time
than the rest of the population due in part to a lack of information about the crisis available in their language.
The prevalence of mental illness among homeless individuals is much
higher than the rest of the population, with more than 12 per cent suffering from severe mental illness, 11 per cent having mood disorders and close to 40 per cent reporting alcohol and drug addictions.