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		em500 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Japan sets record of nearly 100k people aged over ... The linked BBC article devotes the last quarter of text to this. Don't assume they're taking all statistics at face value.

93po 7 months ago [–]

the problem is presenting a headline as fact, rather than as a reported number or adding any qualifying words like "possibly"

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