Need help understanding this data: Celebrity deaths per year since 1951 (IMDB) - More in comments
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...since the bar has been lowered as to what constitutes a "celebrity....
...more "celebrities" = more deaths....
This makes the most sense.
The one thing I will say over the last two years though there seems to be a lot more celebrity deaths that involve cancer than anything else. Like the "we didnt know they were living with cancer"
I get that, but has it been such a steady, regular increase, year on year?
I would have though that the early 80's would have seen a massive jump due to the number of TV channels exploding etc. but I don't see that.
Likewise with the advent of mainstream internet. Sure, the increase goes a bit steeper from 2000, but it doesn't take a huge jump at any point which I would expect with the advent of a new medium and associated 'stars'.
I decided to look into Celebrity deaths and whether they had spiked over the last few years (Covid/Executions/who knows) and I found something really odd.
I'm sure some of this can be explained as a growing number of people considered 'celebrities' etc. as per this article:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/1693402/theres-a-reason-there-have-been-so-many-celebrity-deaths-this-year-and-theres-more-to-come/
Then there's this one that debunks any increase in deaths in 2016:
https://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/30/entertainment/worst-year-celebrity-deaths-trnd/index.html
But when I look at the data it shows a remarkably steady increase over time.
The source data was from https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?death_date=<yyyy>
There were a couple of odd ones too. 1969 and 1968 both recorded the same figure - 1483 deaths.
1954 and 1955 also recorded the same deaths - 849
That seems just too weird. I can't really get my head around it and was hoping someone could come along and just see what I'm missing and tell me :)
PS If anyone wants the raw data let me know and I'll paste a csv of the info
Well it would lineup with the “Celebrity” industries Music, Hollywood etc. steadily increasing in scale and scope. As well as substance abuse becoming a rather entrenched and typical part of such industries.
Though it’d be helpful to get a definition on what precisely the data is considering a “Celebrity”. As that could quite easily encompass a wide range of people who’d technically fit the criteria. Even though the wider public could have absolutely no idea who they are and why they’re considered a celebrity.
Yeah, I haven't sanitised the data yet, but it was odd enough that I felt like posting it to see if anyone else could see what was going on.
Needs to be per capita data to really be meaningful.
True
Exactly.
how does this compare to population increase? and what % of the population are "celebrities"? seems reasonable at first glance without looking into
Just a hunch but if you "know too much" you are probably expendable.
Worldwide?
The figures wouldn't look so chunky if we consider WW
I assume so, I didn't exactly trawl through the lists that came up :)
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