well... don't go jumping to conclusions. It might be that your subscribers have, on average, a lower life expectancy than the average for US Citizens. I know for sure, because I am doing damage to your average. Why? How? Just by being a Romanian citizen. So .. try not to have too many subscribers from Mozambiquem or else , you'll see your average go down the drain.
Not sure why, but I find that last image kinda funny, since you indeed CAN prove that Shigechiyo Izumi wasn't subscribed to this Youtube channel, seeing how he died roughly 20 years Youtube even existed.
@C0nc0rdance: You are the C0nc0rdance of the gaps! Time after time, video after video you fill those gaps in my scientific understanding for which I myself am unable to find an explanation. Thank you and god bless :)
There's another statistical lie that can be part of statements of increased longevity that you failed to mention. The mixing of cause and effect. Perhaps those who watch your channel live longer, but not because they watch it - they watch your channel because they are more educated to begin with and they live longer because of that too. google "pirates+global warming" for a really tongue in cheek example.
And that could easily be the case if you optimistically thought that perhaps there was a 10% chance that in the next 70 years science will learn the nature of, and how to control, the mechanism of aging, and then death rate would become much like the decay of radioactive atoms, where the decay rate doesn't increase (no variable half-lives) as time passes. We only know the age people are dying at right now, which has more to do with what the LIFE expectancy was in 1930.
Alas poor David Carradine. Well, very few septuagenarians die the way he did, that's for sure!
You're forgetting something else important. NOBODY knows the life expectancy of, say, a 30 year old. They know the DEATH expectancy. The probability of him dying this year. But they don't have any idea what the probability of him dying in 2080 if he makes it to 2080 because who knows where technology will be then. EXPECTED VALUE of his lifespan could well be 1000 years.
From 5:54 to 6:01 it says "Save your money. None of these work." It would have been more accurate to state that none of these have been shown to work. Nobody has spent the money to do the studies to show that they don't work. It would not surprise me to find that one of those items might add a year to people's life. It would also not surprise me to find that one of those items could subtract a year.
@WarmWeatherGuy If you're living to 88, do you really think any substance that can 'add or subtract' a year is really going to have any affect above diet and lifestyle?
lulz.... Harry Patch drinking a beer at age 111.... BEER... the secret to long life... oh, and subscription to Concordance with indulgence in quality beverages equals long life.....seriously... just look how happy Mr Path is with that frosty frothy beverage!
Actualy, vegetarianism/veganism also decreases animal deaths associated with crop production, since it takes more plant matter (as well water, energy, land, etc) to raise animals for human consumpton than if the humans consumed the plant matter directly.
My first thoughts about how you were going to justify your claim were advances in healthcare and sampling bias. Simply having internet access means we are statistically more likely to have access to adequate healthcare than people either in remote areas with limited internet access or who are too poor to have internet. You could also have information about the make up of your audience with regard to age (which is mostly what you used) or education or other factors that could affect the numbers.
If I make more then one youtube account and subscribe would I gain more then 2 years? Theoretically could I be immortal if every two years I subscribe with a new account? That is why youtube only wants you to have one account! I just blew the lid off the immortality serum. Spread the word! Immortality is possible!
I'm not exactly sure why you repeted Vegans so often in your video. Though i am not a vegan but a vegetarian i'm really interested in your opinion on that matter. im okay with a comment back or if you allready made a video on that topic, and i just missed it i am really eager to watch it .
@ABitOfBravado The statistics don't support your claims. For instance vegetarians and pescatarians both have lower incidences of heart disease than vegans, while vegans scarcely do any better than those who eat meat in moderation or less frequently. All of these groups do better than those who eat red meat regularly, but cost/benefit wise, veganism is essentially the worst option.
The irony of the video is that your subscribers may as well live longer than the average; even when accounted for color, nationality and gender...; simply because you warn people about the latest snake-oil to avoid ;)
You are absolutely right about the stupidity of statements like, "Those who adopt ____ by the age of ___ live longer than the national average." But, to be sure, there are scientific studies, like the famed China study, that indicate that a near vegan diet increases lifespan. And Luigi Fontana's work on calorie restriction shows that eating less increases many of the bio-markers associated with longevity.
@C0nc0rdance I love Simpson's paradox :) Confounding variables are so often ignored :(
I like the way you express these ideas without even mentioning the terms :) Everyone should be familiar with these concepts, but almost no non-statistician is :(
Also I would note that it is arrogant at best - and disingenuous at worst - to imply that the tenable environmental and economic arguments typically affiliated with vegetarianism - as well as those related to ethics and efficiency of production - deserve to be placed alongside the inane ramblings of religious dogma.
I figured you'd be madder about being lumped in with badminton players and Lamborghini owners.
Try to relax and laugh at your own deeply-held positions (vegetarianism, obviously). It will help to differentiate you from the dogmatic, humorless religious nuts.
@C0nc0rdance Finding fault with individual detractors is quite understandable; but subtly dismissing the arguments opposing the global livestock sector as if they were analogous to the inane ramblings of archaic, nonsensical texts is quite reckless of you. I do not see humor in the superfluous waste of natural resources while billions of humans do not possess sufficient food; nor do I see humor in billions more animals suffering in gestation creates.
@RoScFan Doesn't the thought of hundreds of billions of horrifically tortured animals disturb you at all? The majority of the meat industry is comprised of intensive farming methods.
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition amongst other journals has also lent credence to potential (albeit statistical) health benefits of vegetarianism. They would account for life-style practices and invoke exclusion methods to increase the accuracy of their conclusions. Although, it is generally agreed that the longevity of meat eaters and vegetarians is approximately equal.
The American Institute for Cancer Research in conjunction with the World Cancer Research Fund in their report "Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective" weren’t playing "statistical tricks" when they correlated large consumptions of red meat with colorectal cancer either.
Statistical data when used utilized correctly can be quite accurate. Heart disease is the #1 killer in much of the Western world - a disease you are less likely to fall ill to should you consume large quantities of fruits and vegetables. It is no surprise that vegetarians and vegans - who typically consume large quantities of said food types - are less likely to fall ill to cardiovascular diseases.
You didn't address differences in data collection between countries. For instance quite a few European countries don't count premature babies, babies under a particular birth weight, or babies who die very shortly after birth, as "live births", but we do in the US, shoving down the US average life expectancy. (see wiki on infant mortality)
I'm a 22 year old African male who has been subscribed to your channel for just over a month now. I drive a Mitsubishi gallant 1999. I guess I'm probably an outlier in the demographics of your subscribers.
I think the wealthy care more for their health than the lower middle classes. The poor tend to take less care of themselves is probably one reason why they are poor in the first place. Poor in spirit, poor in the pocket.
Maybe. Or maybe it's just the access to healthcare, or increased criminality in poorer regions? If you already start a sentence with "I think" it should be obvious that you should NOT draw conclusions from it.
@narutofan9999 I can't draw any conclusion for your hypothesis as well. Your post is replete with "maybes." Any reaction to facts full of "maybe" conclusions should not be taken seriously as fact & should therefore be relegated to mere opinion. But I will stick by the statistical fact that the wealthy take better care of themselves. As well as the fact that poor people as well as anyone else has access to healthcare. No one is denied health care in the US. Stick to facts. Maybe doesn't cut it.
@FaganRoberts "No one is denied health care in the US." No one is denied EMERGENCY health care in the US. However, often times because people without health insurance put off anything until it's an absolute emergency, they're significantly less likely to actually acquire health care, because the costs are prohibitive. I went to the ER over chest pains recently, it was $1200... I can't afford that... I can't even afford $600 to get my motorcycle into shape.
@puellanivis Yikes! Once I wanted a new Mercedes and was told I didn't make enough money to buy one and carry the monthly payments. I then petitioned my government to raise taxes on my neighbors in order to subsidize and finance my much needed transportation. My selfish neighbors protested, as I called them greedy in return. I had to settle for a substandard Ford instead. But eventually I took pride in this car because it's my own. I then realized everybody gets a ride. One way or the other.
@FaganRoberts ... you are a horrible human being that would deny someone health care over them being unable to pay for it. How pitiful it is that a Samaritan walking down the road would stoop down and help a sick man, while you ride past. I wish upon you all the suffering that you wish upon others.
@puellanivis Two wrongs make a right? Did you just wish suffering upon a man for him having wished suffering upon others? Are you not then in the exact same possition as he was?
@N3CR1S Actually, should he choose to wish "negative" suffering upon others, then I would be blessing him, rather than cursing him. I'm simply hoping that the universe treat him as he treats others. Two wrongs don't make a right, but he chooses himself to make it two wrongs, or two rights... and two rights don't make a wrong.
@FaganRoberts In sweden healthcare is inexpensive to the average person (medicin, max 120$/year; examination, 50$/visit) and here everyone excepts people living on the streets take care of their healh. In countries where the cost of healthcare is greater compared to the averaged persons income, fewer take care of their health.
Healthcare is thus more dependant on the wealth of the individual, than on the actual individual. If it were free, we would therefore take equally good care of ourselfs.
@N3CR1S In the US, the price structure is based on the ability to pay (based like that of every other good or service provided). In the future, an individual's socialized health care will be based on how best to get other people to pay. After that, the only issue will be how to rid corruption, neglect and substandard service from the system. Myself, I pay about $40 for a regular periodic physician exam. In the US, the poor get free medical service from emergency rooms and near/free clinics.
Very clever. I've studied basic statistics in school but had never heard of or just hadn't realised this effect before. Thanks for another informative and clever video :)
Anybody else thinking of subscribing and committing suicide? But seriously, Concordance, I just subscribed. Quality videos... I can tell, using my crystal ball of course, that you're a smart dude who's into science. I'm curious, what subjects you delve into personally and which books would you recommend?
I thought that the trick about how the subs of this channel was that many of the subs here are not all from the USA, which is has the poorest life expectancies among developed countries.
I personally think some of the younger generations are going to live a lot longer with future medicine, life extension technologies and the ever increasing growth of computing power.
@PhantomSephiroth I suspect you'll change your mind before then - perspective changes significantly over time - but I can't prove it. Hope you enjoy whatever life you do decide to live.
This is exactly why people incorrectly think lifespans were really short way back when, since the average life expectancy was 30-something. They in fact lived much longer than that, and would be much better represented if we disregarded mortality before, say, age 2.
Aww man, considering how crappy life is, I'm apparently doomed to live a long life now.. because I can't unsubscribe.. I have to be subscribed, the channel is too good. I blame c0nc0rdance for this.
@Hayleyfire929 one theory has it that the grandmother is still useful as per reproductive advantage and infant survivability but poor old grandad soon outlives his usefulness. So long life in females has been evolutionarily selected.
I think that you're being pretty unfair. It seems like you're saying that, for example, vegans DON'T live longer than others with that same profile. However, you didn't prove that. You should compare that racial and gender make-up among average people to that makeup in the vegan population. I have a feeling that they will still live longer (though I'm not a vegan, myself).
It's like saying, "The next time non-smokers say they are more likely to live longer, LAUGH RIGHT IN THEIR FACE!" Huh?
People are living longer these days, and with genetic transhumanist technologies genes could be manipulated to make people immune to more diseases, increase IQ, and greatly increase lifespan at a rate much faster than natural evolution could accomplish.
In my country, average life expectancy is 66 years for a male (77 for female). The medical technology better kick in in the next 20 years. I am not nearly ready to die in 45 years.
I never thought of this. I've always taken race, sex, economic status, etc. into account; but I never considered that life expectancy changes with age. Good video, thanks.
On his Reasonable Faith podcast, William Lane Craig said that homosexual lifestyle leads to significantly shorter lifespan. Surely he wasn't lying? ; )
This feels like a Pepsi commercial, the ones designed to keep current Pepsi drinkers, making us feel good for just being in there. I like it, because I'm very shallow :)
Love your vids as always. Just a note...I say I am a certain age and from a certain country, but those things are false.
You are Awesome though...and just thought I would let you know since us scientists and educators- (Me being a science Educator in the public school system) know how crucial correct data is.
Yet again I learn sometihng new that is both interesting and very helpful for living a skeptical life in a world rife with ridiculous crap backed up by bad reasoning.
Vegans often have Vitamin B deficiencies as a result of poor planning in their diet. This causes a risk of early heart disease. As a result, pescetarians would generally be expected to have the longest life spans, but this kind of research is:
1. VERY expensive to conduct. Cohorts of tens of thousands would be needed.
2. Plagued by multi-variate associations... each group is linked to multiple behaviors.
3. Not really worth doing... people are going to eat whatever.
@C0nc0rdance My grandfather told me of a study that compared different diets with mental health outcomes. I remember because my grandfather read it in a German newspaper and there was a word he couldn't translate into English. He best approximation was, 'They go crazier faster.' It said eating too much meat was better for you than eating no meat.
Makes sense. We evolved to eat meat, therefore avoiding all meat is probably a bad thing.
I wish I remembered enough details to look it up online.
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@C0nc0rdance Wow...I just read your answer to HonestDiscussioner. He brought up the same question as me. And one of your answers was "Not really worth doing... people are going to eat whatever." That's idiotic. It's like saying "Some people will always smoke, so why test if non-smokers live longer." Wow... I hope you're not a scientist.
Research funds are a limited quantity. Given the choice between research on (1) "which lifestyle has the greatest longevity" and (2) research on cancer, AIDS, malaria and heart disease, I'll choose 2. Nutritional research is actually useful, research to validate trendy lifestyles is not.
Save your insults and name-calling for someone who cares about what you think.
@C0nc0rdance "Nutritional research is actually useful, research to validate trendy lifestyles is not." WTF
A vegetarian capable society would be massively beneficial to the industrial world. The livestock sector is easily one of the most environmentally destructive and wasteful industries on the planet; not to mention one of the most cruel.
@IdaMiaDot In case you did not know, artificial meat have been developing for several years now. Experiments were started in 2001. I think it was 2009 that the first meals were eaten by humans.
Soon we dont need to grow an entire animal just to eat its muscles, we just grow the muscles directly in a factory. Then the vegans, vegitarians, and carnivors can all be happy.
@Rationalific yeah peopl will always smoke. concordance's point is adequate in this case because the choices of food arent because of natural human urges but instead their morals. I can tell a vegan if i want that their lifestyle is unhealthy and they should eat some meat. they are more than likely to either not agree or not care. their morals tell them that eating animals is wrong.
@C0nc0rdance They have higher accounts of vitamin B-12 deficiency but not general B-vitamin deficiency. This is because our primate ancestors B-12 sources prior to animal products would have typically been the soil left on fruit (B-12 rich due to decayed animal matter), and rare insects or very rare bird eggs. It would probably be predicted that lacto-ovo vegetarians would have the least instances of heart disease.
@HonestDiscussioner Veganism is an insulting first world affectation. I understand the moral incentives for vegetarianism or pescatarianism, but veganism is insufferable and indefensible.
We're probably all watching this video reach over 100 anyway, due to developments in medicine and technology (mechanical organs etc) in the coming decades.
@C0nc0rdance Rather i think you is the one who need to understand... that if i can find just one little thing that doesnt match what you are saying it means God did it.. or something.
Wow, thanks very much for this video! That's really interesting, I had never thought along those lines. I don't know about living longer, but I know if I keep learning, I will keep learning and that is a beautiful thing. =)
I was guessing it had to do with age, but my guess had to with it being that more of your subscribers are born in more recent decades, and life expectancy is higher for those who'll live further into the new millennium due to new technology, etc.
I will admit though, I AM one of those who missed the subscribe button first time around
Interesting - the top 4 countries which beat Canada are all tiny coastal nations. The top one (Monaco) is a tax haven full of rich people and almost no crime, so that probably screws with the statistics.
It's also telling that a lot of such groups DON'T cite IQ as a reason for joining. Most of the data I've seen shows that teetotalers, vegans, christians etc. have lower IQs than the rest of the population.
Warning: what follows is an uninformed, uneducated opinion.
I reckon genetics plays the largest factor in longevity. The family of my Uncle's wife routinely live well into their 90's, whereas my own family, on my father's side, tends to drop off somewhere between 50-70. A fact I'm not so happy about. Of course, my observations of my family does not mean my opinion is correct, but I feel like there is definitely something to it.
But But But!!!!! Being a vegetarian or a vegan(and doing it correctly) is a healthier lifestyle option. I can send you some links to look at where medical researchers and doctors are talking about dangers of high protein diet and not enough fresh food(vitamins, and other plant "stuff") Come to think about it- maybe it could be one of your future videos? Eating healthy and what should the diet consist of.
a lot of assumptions in this video. I'll have you know, through secret info gathering that I can't speak of without having to kill you, the average viewer of your channel happens to be black and under the age of 5 y/o. Sorry to ruin your absurd premise.
Not sure I understand. (Watching at 1 AM, cut me some slack.)
Your life expectancy as you age is always changing, b/c it's based on the life expectancy for babies born at a given time, thereby making it difficult to track the impact on life expectancy of lifestyle choices made in adulthood? Yes?
Damn I must have missd that yellow button. I guessed that it had to do with the fact that its far more likely that I am well off enough to survive longer, when I am able to use the internet to watch videos for education and entertainment, as opposed to being either hungry homeless addicted to drugs or all of the above, seeing as how such people would be less likely to spend much of their time using youtube to watch science videos.
@c0nc0rdance yup... that were conclusions based in bad study designs..
The most dangerous problem in epidemiology... We use the Epidemiology, and Introduction written by Rothman. In the first chapter, it stated that Panama has a higher life expectancy compared to Sweden in the year 2000.
And so it was , Adam lived 930 years , Methuselah lived 969 years , Noah lived 950 years , and C0nc0rdance's subscribers ... just won't F***-ing die !!!
Tied to this is the rather common belief that all people lived shorter lives in the past. They hear that life expectancy was 50 years and somehow think that everyone dropped dead at that age. This is of course not true. They simply had more early deaths that takes down the average but people who survived illness and injury etc lived just as long in the past as they do now, there were just fewer of them. This is a perticular pet peeve of mine.
Very good video Concordance. One of the most informative for me personally in a long while - because this was something I had never really considered. I have always assumed this kind of argumentation was mostly bullshit based by how it is usually presented in the usual huckster-fashion - but now I actually know specifically what the flaw is. That is nice to know :)
Kind of goes to show - statistics are hard to understand and easy to manipulate. Friend of both scientist and snake oil salesman ;)
I have formulated a drink that is equivalent to a juice made from the Tree of Life that was in the Garden of Eden and is mentioned in Genesis 3:22. It grants immortality to anyone who swallows it. Of course, the FDA testing is going to take forever!
Living a long time is overrated anyways. If you're so old that your arthritic hands can't strangle someone to death, what's the point going on living? Instead of one of those necklaces with the button to alert people that you've fallen and can't get up, I want a gun to blow my brains out. Once you can't get yourself up, times up.
@TheOriginOfSpecious I agree - but as our life expectancy goes up, our standard of life at old age has also gone up. Before - if you developed a hip problem or broke it you were fucked. Now they put in a brand new one that is stronger than the one you friggin had to begin with...
If you take reasonably well care of yourself, you can get very old and still be pretty active. my grandmother hiked regularly until she was 88, and she didn't have close to the medical tricks I have available to me.
Well, peer pressure at an early age plays a big role in boys eating meat or risk being teased. It only get's worse as they age and they enter the world of "Real men eat meat, f@gs don't" :/
@again2021 No, most people eat meat because they like it, peer pressure is such a tiny insignificant vector it's not really worth mentioning.
When I was at school, about a year ago, nobody cared what people ate. It's of such astronomically tiny significance to someone's character and I find it hilariously ironic that vegans raise the argument.
If you stop making videos before I reach 78 will I still get my live extended or will I feel those 2 extra years suddenly get sucked out of me like a mini version of when the guy in Indiana Jones drinks from the wrong holy grail?
well... don't go jumping to conclusions. It might be that your subscribers have, on average, a lower life expectancy than the average for US Citizens. I know for sure, because I am doing damage to your average. Why? How? Just by being a Romanian citizen. So .. try not to have too many subscribers from Mozambiquem or else , you'll see your average go down the drain.
YoricksSkull 2 months ago
and, on the other hand, try to have as many subscribers from Japan as possible.
YoricksSkull 2 months ago
Hah! In your fuckin face, national average!
Snagabott 6 months ago
Not sure why, but I find that last image kinda funny, since you indeed CAN prove that Shigechiyo Izumi wasn't subscribed to this Youtube channel, seeing how he died roughly 20 years Youtube even existed.
supermanlypunch 6 months ago
@C0nc0rdance: You are the C0nc0rdance of the gaps! Time after time, video after video you fill those gaps in my scientific understanding for which I myself am unable to find an explanation. Thank you and god bless :)
Jacksilver2 8 months ago
There's another statistical lie that can be part of statements of increased longevity that you failed to mention. The mixing of cause and effect. Perhaps those who watch your channel live longer, but not because they watch it - they watch your channel because they are more educated to begin with and they live longer because of that too. google "pirates+global warming" for a really tongue in cheek example.
medexamtoolsdotcom 8 months ago
And that could easily be the case if you optimistically thought that perhaps there was a 10% chance that in the next 70 years science will learn the nature of, and how to control, the mechanism of aging, and then death rate would become much like the decay of radioactive atoms, where the decay rate doesn't increase (no variable half-lives) as time passes. We only know the age people are dying at right now, which has more to do with what the LIFE expectancy was in 1930.
medexamtoolsdotcom 8 months ago
Alas poor David Carradine. Well, very few septuagenarians die the way he did, that's for sure!
You're forgetting something else important. NOBODY knows the life expectancy of, say, a 30 year old. They know the DEATH expectancy. The probability of him dying this year. But they don't have any idea what the probability of him dying in 2080 if he makes it to 2080 because who knows where technology will be then. EXPECTED VALUE of his lifespan could well be 1000 years.
medexamtoolsdotcom 8 months ago
Just plain Brilliant!
themooddisorders 9 months ago
And to think I had subscribed only because your videos are awesome. How fortuitous that I will live longer as a result.
wy8766 9 months ago
(: This video made my day.
Funny, informative and balanced so perfectly.
RobertWilfredFoxton 9 months ago
fantastic video!!!!!!!!!!!
Youmakemefart 9 months ago
Yeah, the mic is not as good as your previous one.
216trixie 9 months ago
@216trixie Good video, though.
216trixie 9 months ago
LOL!, I heard something like this in a TV show, I think it was Homer Simpson who said it, and it may not be the exact words used
"People uses statistics to support a false claim, 90 percent of the population know that."
emancoy 9 months ago
Anyone clicking thumbs up on this video and my comment will live, on average, two years longer.
True fact.
kissfan7 9 months ago
Lies, damn lies and statistics.... lol.....
Sunhawk7ajj 9 months ago
1:55 clockwise from lower right: Michael Caine, John McCain, Kwai Chang Caine, and...?
vysehrad 9 months ago
@vysehrad David Carradine
DodoPandemic 8 months ago
@ABitOfBravado Yes the animals! The tasty, tasty animals!
BruceyGoodness 9 months ago
Bah! I'd rather live fast and die young. Pass me the cheeseburger over the salad any day! ;)
Ripley747 9 months ago
From 5:54 to 6:01 it says "Save your money. None of these work." It would have been more accurate to state that none of these have been shown to work. Nobody has spent the money to do the studies to show that they don't work. It would not surprise me to find that one of those items might add a year to people's life. It would also not surprise me to find that one of those items could subtract a year.
WarmWeatherGuy 9 months ago 4
@WarmWeatherGuy If you're living to 88, do you really think any substance that can 'add or subtract' a year is really going to have any affect above diet and lifestyle?
SezSays 9 months ago
Oh yes. And did you know that virtually all Concordance subscribers also have an above average number of legs?
Dutchmaster81 9 months ago
Excellent video! Statistics is a cruel bitch of a mistress!
quinndiesel1977 9 months ago
lulz.... Harry Patch drinking a beer at age 111.... BEER... the secret to long life... oh, and subscription to Concordance with indulgence in quality beverages equals long life.....seriously... just look how happy Mr Path is with that frosty frothy beverage!
brianthemayan 9 months ago
@DarklingX
Actualy, vegetarianism/veganism also decreases animal deaths associated with crop production, since it takes more plant matter (as well water, energy, land, etc) to raise animals for human consumpton than if the humans consumed the plant matter directly.
Ronin1459 9 months ago
But I'm only 3 ana half, Concwordance.
USERNAMEfieldempty 9 months ago
My first thoughts about how you were going to justify your claim were advances in healthcare and sampling bias. Simply having internet access means we are statistically more likely to have access to adequate healthcare than people either in remote areas with limited internet access or who are too poor to have internet. You could also have information about the make up of your audience with regard to age (which is mostly what you used) or education or other factors that could affect the numbers.
TheNikonSevast 9 months ago
If I make more then one youtube account and subscribe would I gain more then 2 years? Theoretically could I be immortal if every two years I subscribe with a new account? That is why youtube only wants you to have one account! I just blew the lid off the immortality serum. Spread the word! Immortality is possible!
AMordaciousGoat 9 months ago
When you started with that stuff in the beginning I was all like ok what are you trying to butter us up for =.= I'm on to you mister grape-ance.
mitenzouki 9 months ago
I'm sold! Subscribed!
Vire70 9 months ago
so basically what you're say is if i open like 30 youtube accounts and subscribe to your channel, i should live to be like 130 years old. right?
kiddhitta 9 months ago
You're actually COSTING me years, my national life-span is 82.5 yrs ;)
giliellthesecond 9 months ago
@TheTheistlikeatheist
You took the wrong point to stop. If you watch the whole video you will find that the opening statements were a statistic trick he is exposing.
I urge you to watch fully because it isn't what you think it is up to 0:49.
wybo2 9 months ago
I'm not exactly sure why you repeted Vegans so often in your video. Though i am not a vegan but a vegetarian i'm really interested in your opinion on that matter. im okay with a comment back or if you allready made a video on that topic, and i just missed it i am really eager to watch it .
Quiestre 9 months ago
@ABitOfBravado The statistics don't support your claims. For instance vegetarians and pescatarians both have lower incidences of heart disease than vegans, while vegans scarcely do any better than those who eat meat in moderation or less frequently. All of these groups do better than those who eat red meat regularly, but cost/benefit wise, veganism is essentially the worst option.
smo1704 9 months ago
The irony of the video is that your subscribers may as well live longer than the average; even when accounted for color, nationality and gender...; simply because you warn people about the latest snake-oil to avoid ;)
Peace
akylae101 9 months ago
AWESOME VIDEO:)
gregornstein 9 months ago
You are absolutely right about the stupidity of statements like, "Those who adopt ____ by the age of ___ live longer than the national average." But, to be sure, there are scientific studies, like the famed China study, that indicate that a near vegan diet increases lifespan. And Luigi Fontana's work on calorie restriction shows that eating less increases many of the bio-markers associated with longevity.
DeconstructingGlenn 9 months ago
@C0nc0rdance I love Simpson's paradox :) Confounding variables are so often ignored :(
I like the way you express these ideas without even mentioning the terms :) Everyone should be familiar with these concepts, but almost no non-statistician is :(
XenogeneGray 9 months ago
This video made made me sub.
Kaarox 9 months ago
After this, I pretty much have to subscribe.
fielsjd 9 months ago
@fielsjd Welcome to the group, nice to have you onboard :)
N3CR1S 9 months ago
Also I would note that it is arrogant at best - and disingenuous at worst - to imply that the tenable environmental and economic arguments typically affiliated with vegetarianism - as well as those related to ethics and efficiency of production - deserve to be placed alongside the inane ramblings of religious dogma.
IdaMiaDot 9 months ago
@IdaMiaDot
I figured you'd be madder about being lumped in with badminton players and Lamborghini owners.
Try to relax and laugh at your own deeply-held positions (vegetarianism, obviously). It will help to differentiate you from the dogmatic, humorless religious nuts.
C0nc0rdance 9 months ago 31
@C0nc0rdance Finding fault with individual detractors is quite understandable; but subtly dismissing the arguments opposing the global livestock sector as if they were analogous to the inane ramblings of archaic, nonsensical texts is quite reckless of you. I do not see humor in the superfluous waste of natural resources while billions of humans do not possess sufficient food; nor do I see humor in billions more animals suffering in gestation creates.
IdaMiaDot 9 months ago
@C0nc0rdance I'm a vegan and I found that "badminton players and Lamborghini owners" bit damned funny.
meritocratic1337 9 months ago
@IdaMiaDot Meat is murder! Delicious, delicious murder, yummy…..
RoScFan 1 month ago
@RoScFan Doesn't the thought of hundreds of billions of horrifically tortured animals disturb you at all? The majority of the meat industry is comprised of intensive farming methods.
IdaMiaDot 1 month ago
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition amongst other journals has also lent credence to potential (albeit statistical) health benefits of vegetarianism. They would account for life-style practices and invoke exclusion methods to increase the accuracy of their conclusions. Although, it is generally agreed that the longevity of meat eaters and vegetarians is approximately equal.
IdaMiaDot 9 months ago
The American Institute for Cancer Research in conjunction with the World Cancer Research Fund in their report "Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective" weren’t playing "statistical tricks" when they correlated large consumptions of red meat with colorectal cancer either.
IdaMiaDot 9 months ago
Statistical data when used utilized correctly can be quite accurate. Heart disease is the #1 killer in much of the Western world - a disease you are less likely to fall ill to should you consume large quantities of fruits and vegetables. It is no surprise that vegetarians and vegans - who typically consume large quantities of said food types - are less likely to fall ill to cardiovascular diseases.
IdaMiaDot 9 months ago
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Too bad every single one of you could die tomorrow.
BackwardsCup 9 months ago
You didn't address differences in data collection between countries. For instance quite a few European countries don't count premature babies, babies under a particular birth weight, or babies who die very shortly after birth, as "live births", but we do in the US, shoving down the US average life expectancy. (see wiki on infant mortality)
blurglide 9 months ago
I'm a 22 year old African male who has been subscribed to your channel for just over a month now. I drive a Mitsubishi gallant 1999. I guess I'm probably an outlier in the demographics of your subscribers.
Cheers!
Mrmoc7 9 months ago
I think the wealthy care more for their health than the lower middle classes. The poor tend to take less care of themselves is probably one reason why they are poor in the first place. Poor in spirit, poor in the pocket.
FaganRoberts 9 months ago
@FaganRoberts
Maybe. Or maybe it's just the access to healthcare, or increased criminality in poorer regions? If you already start a sentence with "I think" it should be obvious that you should NOT draw conclusions from it.
narutofan9999 9 months ago
@narutofan9999 I can't draw any conclusion for your hypothesis as well. Your post is replete with "maybes." Any reaction to facts full of "maybe" conclusions should not be taken seriously as fact & should therefore be relegated to mere opinion. But I will stick by the statistical fact that the wealthy take better care of themselves. As well as the fact that poor people as well as anyone else has access to healthcare. No one is denied health care in the US. Stick to facts. Maybe doesn't cut it.
FaganRoberts 9 months ago
@FaganRoberts "No one is denied health care in the US." No one is denied EMERGENCY health care in the US. However, often times because people without health insurance put off anything until it's an absolute emergency, they're significantly less likely to actually acquire health care, because the costs are prohibitive. I went to the ER over chest pains recently, it was $1200... I can't afford that... I can't even afford $600 to get my motorcycle into shape.
puellanivis 9 months ago
@puellanivis Yikes! Once I wanted a new Mercedes and was told I didn't make enough money to buy one and carry the monthly payments. I then petitioned my government to raise taxes on my neighbors in order to subsidize and finance my much needed transportation. My selfish neighbors protested, as I called them greedy in return. I had to settle for a substandard Ford instead. But eventually I took pride in this car because it's my own. I then realized everybody gets a ride. One way or the other.
FaganRoberts 9 months ago
@FaganRoberts ... you are a horrible human being that would deny someone health care over them being unable to pay for it. How pitiful it is that a Samaritan walking down the road would stoop down and help a sick man, while you ride past. I wish upon you all the suffering that you wish upon others.
puellanivis 9 months ago
@puellanivis Two wrongs make a right? Did you just wish suffering upon a man for him having wished suffering upon others? Are you not then in the exact same possition as he was?
N3CR1S 9 months ago
@N3CR1S Actually, should he choose to wish "negative" suffering upon others, then I would be blessing him, rather than cursing him. I'm simply hoping that the universe treat him as he treats others. Two wrongs don't make a right, but he chooses himself to make it two wrongs, or two rights... and two rights don't make a wrong.
puellanivis 9 months ago
@puellanivis Aaaah, grow up, you little pipsqeak. Get back to me when you have something big to say.
FaganRoberts 9 months ago
@FaganRoberts In sweden healthcare is inexpensive to the average person (medicin, max 120$/year; examination, 50$/visit) and here everyone excepts people living on the streets take care of their healh. In countries where the cost of healthcare is greater compared to the averaged persons income, fewer take care of their health.
Healthcare is thus more dependant on the wealth of the individual, than on the actual individual. If it were free, we would therefore take equally good care of ourselfs.
N3CR1S 9 months ago
@N3CR1S In the US, the price structure is based on the ability to pay (based like that of every other good or service provided). In the future, an individual's socialized health care will be based on how best to get other people to pay. After that, the only issue will be how to rid corruption, neglect and substandard service from the system. Myself, I pay about $40 for a regular periodic physician exam. In the US, the poor get free medical service from emergency rooms and near/free clinics.
FaganRoberts 9 months ago
Jeanne Calment of France (1875-1997), who died at age 122 years, 164 days.
QuantumGh0st 9 months ago
hehehehe :-) cool thx
sigmata0 9 months ago
conclusion ??? its all dumb luck , but with a few helping hands in the form of precautions , like not ignoring signs of illnesses.
Akirilus 9 months ago
Very clever. I've studied basic statistics in school but had never heard of or just hadn't realised this effect before. Thanks for another informative and clever video :)
biain93 9 months ago
5 people can't find the subscribe button ....
eyallev 9 months ago
Anybody else thinking of subscribing and committing suicide? But seriously, Concordance, I just subscribed. Quality videos... I can tell, using my crystal ball of course, that you're a smart dude who's into science. I'm curious, what subjects you delve into personally and which books would you recommend?
memetherapy 9 months ago
I thought that the trick about how the subs of this channel was that many of the subs here are not all from the USA, which is has the poorest life expectancies among developed countries.
no2religions 9 months ago
you lied!! thats only 1.9 years longer!!
AForkSpoon 9 months ago
I personally think some of the younger generations are going to live a lot longer with future medicine, life extension technologies and the ever increasing growth of computing power.
Keim4ever 9 months ago
Subscribed. Is it reasonable to say this is related to the law of large numbers?
Littlebiger 9 months ago
I don't think a long life is always the desirable option. My limit is 60 years.
PhantomSephiroth 9 months ago
@PhantomSephiroth How does that work, exactly? From your 60th birthday onwards you'll want to die?
soundofgeek 9 months ago
@soundofgeek Something like that.
PhantomSephiroth 9 months ago
@PhantomSephiroth I suspect you'll change your mind before then - perspective changes significantly over time - but I can't prove it. Hope you enjoy whatever life you do decide to live.
soundofgeek 9 months ago
@soundofgeek Sure, whatever...
PhantomSephiroth 9 months ago
This is exactly why people incorrectly think lifespans were really short way back when, since the average life expectancy was 30-something. They in fact lived much longer than that, and would be much better represented if we disregarded mortality before, say, age 2.
gimmethegepgun 9 months ago
Aww man, considering how crappy life is, I'm apparently doomed to live a long life now.. because I can't unsubscribe.. I have to be subscribed, the channel is too good. I blame c0nc0rdance for this.
CenaxKikia 9 months ago
Only 12% of your subscribers are female? o.o
Also, why do we live longer than males? Is it due to health or social factors or..?
Hayleyfire929 9 months ago
@Hayleyfire929 They are less likely to kill each other. Men are far more likely to die in wars or even gangs.
hellasow 9 months ago
@Hayleyfire929 one theory has it that the grandmother is still useful as per reproductive advantage and infant survivability but poor old grandad soon outlives his usefulness. So long life in females has been evolutionarily selected.
flight1100 9 months ago
I think that you're being pretty unfair. It seems like you're saying that, for example, vegans DON'T live longer than others with that same profile. However, you didn't prove that. You should compare that racial and gender make-up among average people to that makeup in the vegan population. I have a feeling that they will still live longer (though I'm not a vegan, myself).
It's like saying, "The next time non-smokers say they are more likely to live longer, LAUGH RIGHT IN THEIR FACE!" Huh?
Rationalific 9 months ago
People are living longer these days, and with genetic transhumanist technologies genes could be manipulated to make people immune to more diseases, increase IQ, and greatly increase lifespan at a rate much faster than natural evolution could accomplish.
jaymthegenius 9 months ago
I has a genius
Pineconevolved 9 months ago
man, this was really interesting.
mattakudesu 9 months ago
In my country, average life expectancy is 66 years for a male (77 for female). The medical technology better kick in in the next 20 years. I am not nearly ready to die in 45 years.
ArtypNk 9 months ago
Who can I subscribe to become immortal
LogicalThinker667 9 months ago
I'm Canadian so my average life expectancy is 2 full years longer then the average life expectancy of a C0nc0rdance subscriber.
ridgetownpimp 9 months ago
I never thought of this. I've always taken race, sex, economic status, etc. into account; but I never considered that life expectancy changes with age. Good video, thanks.
GRNoam 9 months ago
On his Reasonable Faith podcast, William Lane Craig said that homosexual lifestyle leads to significantly shorter lifespan. Surely he wasn't lying? ; )
BigIdeaSeeker 9 months ago
You forgot other factors that may also indicate longevity: 1- literacy 2- computer literacy 3- atheism.
AtheismTV 9 months ago
This feels like a Pepsi commercial, the ones designed to keep current Pepsi drinkers, making us feel good for just being in there. I like it, because I'm very shallow :)
tnordloh 9 months ago
Love your vids as always. Just a note...I say I am a certain age and from a certain country, but those things are false.
You are Awesome though...and just thought I would let you know since us scientists and educators- (Me being a science Educator in the public school system) know how crucial correct data is.
thanks! and Keep posting!
-J
Jamesbrown6969 9 months ago
Hello! Shigechiyo izumi here, I am suscribed to c0nc0rdance of course and so is my Grandma. She says hello to you.
synsei1 9 months ago
keys to happiness = Live fast, die young. ^_^
l337pwnage 9 months ago
Damn, I'm NOT smarter than a fifth grader!
I actually figured there was some other correlation related to inquisitive types or something.
D'oh!
steveb0503 9 months ago
Thanks concordance.
Yet again I learn sometihng new that is both interesting and very helpful for living a skeptical life in a world rife with ridiculous crap backed up by bad reasoning.
Glad I found your channel.
Walabinx 9 months ago
Thank you for this. I will keep my eye out for such tactics.
You seem to imply Vegans DON'T actually live longer other factors are taken into account. Is that true? I never heard you expressly state so.
HonestDiscussioner 9 months ago
@HonestDiscussioner
Vegans often have Vitamin B deficiencies as a result of poor planning in their diet. This causes a risk of early heart disease. As a result, pescetarians would generally be expected to have the longest life spans, but this kind of research is:
1. VERY expensive to conduct. Cohorts of tens of thousands would be needed.
2. Plagued by multi-variate associations... each group is linked to multiple behaviors.
3. Not really worth doing... people are going to eat whatever.
C0nc0rdance 9 months ago 19
@C0nc0rdance "3. Not really worth doing... people are going to eat whatever."
lol! Who says science can't be funny?
HonestDiscussioner 9 months ago
@C0nc0rdance My grandfather told me of a study that compared different diets with mental health outcomes. I remember because my grandfather read it in a German newspaper and there was a word he couldn't translate into English. He best approximation was, 'They go crazier faster.' It said eating too much meat was better for you than eating no meat.
Makes sense. We evolved to eat meat, therefore avoiding all meat is probably a bad thing.
I wish I remembered enough details to look it up online.
BrotherAlpha 9 months ago
@C0nc0rdance One could drink their fair share of high fermentation beers right? B12 FTW ^_^
zottejakke3 9 months ago
@C0nc0rdance I drink plenty of Red Bulls, so I think I'll be ok.
purewilderness 9 months ago
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@C0nc0rdance Wow...I just read your answer to HonestDiscussioner. He brought up the same question as me. And one of your answers was "Not really worth doing... people are going to eat whatever." That's idiotic. It's like saying "Some people will always smoke, so why test if non-smokers live longer." Wow... I hope you're not a scientist.
Rationalific 9 months ago
@Rationalific
Research funds are a limited quantity. Given the choice between research on (1) "which lifestyle has the greatest longevity" and (2) research on cancer, AIDS, malaria and heart disease, I'll choose 2. Nutritional research is actually useful, research to validate trendy lifestyles is not.
Save your insults and name-calling for someone who cares about what you think.
C0nc0rdance 9 months ago 51
@C0nc0rdance "Nutritional research is actually useful, research to validate trendy lifestyles is not." WTF
A vegetarian capable society would be massively beneficial to the industrial world. The livestock sector is easily one of the most environmentally destructive and wasteful industries on the planet; not to mention one of the most cruel.
IdaMiaDot 9 months ago
@IdaMiaDot In case you did not know, artificial meat have been developing for several years now. Experiments were started in 2001. I think it was 2009 that the first meals were eaten by humans.
Soon we dont need to grow an entire animal just to eat its muscles, we just grow the muscles directly in a factory. Then the vegans, vegitarians, and carnivors can all be happy.
N3CR1S 9 months ago
@Rationalific yeah peopl will always smoke. concordance's point is adequate in this case because the choices of food arent because of natural human urges but instead their morals. I can tell a vegan if i want that their lifestyle is unhealthy and they should eat some meat. they are more than likely to either not agree or not care. their morals tell them that eating animals is wrong.
Heliosvector 9 months ago
@C0nc0rdance They have higher accounts of vitamin B-12 deficiency but not general B-vitamin deficiency. This is because our primate ancestors B-12 sources prior to animal products would have typically been the soil left on fruit (B-12 rich due to decayed animal matter), and rare insects or very rare bird eggs. It would probably be predicted that lacto-ovo vegetarians would have the least instances of heart disease.
IdaMiaDot 9 months ago
@HonestDiscussioner Veganism is an insulting first world affectation. I understand the moral incentives for vegetarianism or pescatarianism, but veganism is insufferable and indefensible.
morrowrail 9 months ago
excellent
eirpcalc 9 months ago
Great video.
tintiringa 9 months ago
We're probably all watching this video reach over 100 anyway, due to developments in medicine and technology (mechanical organs etc) in the coming decades.
Race you to 200!
Scotracer1987 9 months ago
ha.. I drive an MC almost all year so my Life expectancy is waaaay worse than this.. so.. you're wrong.
sp4zzer 9 months ago
@sp4zzer
Somebody doesn't understand what "statistically" means...
And stop bringing down our averages! Join the outgroup!
C0nc0rdance 9 months ago 26
@C0nc0rdance Rather i think you is the one who need to understand... that if i can find just one little thing that doesnt match what you are saying it means God did it.. or something.
sp4zzer 9 months ago
I was watching this, and the radio started to play "who wants to live forever"
Sgrunterundt 9 months ago
RIP name the cat "ginger"
enlightenmentreader 9 months ago
Bayesian Theorem.
EverEvolvingApe 9 months ago
Wow, thanks very much for this video! That's really interesting, I had never thought along those lines. I don't know about living longer, but I know if I keep learning, I will keep learning and that is a beautiful thing. =)
Levikarose79 9 months ago
Careful with what you say man...some of the Theists might think you're veiwing yourself as a god or demi-gog.
Gazgule 9 months ago
Your best video so far!
richardcadbury 9 months ago
I was guessing it had to do with age, but my guess had to with it being that more of your subscribers are born in more recent decades, and life expectancy is higher for those who'll live further into the new millennium due to new technology, etc.
I will admit though, I AM one of those who missed the subscribe button first time around
crocoshocker 9 months ago
Interesting - the top 4 countries which beat Canada are all tiny coastal nations. The top one (Monaco) is a tax haven full of rich people and almost no crime, so that probably screws with the statistics.
Flyborg 9 months ago
EDABMFTWD
Nhurm 9 months ago
So the mean value might be more useful?
Fjarhultian 9 months ago
@Fjarhultian Stupid english language. I mean mode value.
Fjarhultian 9 months ago
It's also telling that a lot of such groups DON'T cite IQ as a reason for joining. Most of the data I've seen shows that teetotalers, vegans, christians etc. have lower IQs than the rest of the population.
SoundOfScilence 9 months ago
Warning: what follows is an uninformed, uneducated opinion.
I reckon genetics plays the largest factor in longevity. The family of my Uncle's wife routinely live well into their 90's, whereas my own family, on my father's side, tends to drop off somewhere between 50-70. A fact I'm not so happy about. Of course, my observations of my family does not mean my opinion is correct, but I feel like there is definitely something to it.
Textra1 9 months ago
Ferrari, if I had one....well never mind.
dondude69 9 months ago
But But But!!!!! Being a vegetarian or a vegan(and doing it correctly) is a healthier lifestyle option. I can send you some links to look at where medical researchers and doctors are talking about dangers of high protein diet and not enough fresh food(vitamins, and other plant "stuff") Come to think about it- maybe it could be one of your future videos? Eating healthy and what should the diet consist of.
pestudkaru 9 months ago
a lot of assumptions in this video. I'll have you know, through secret info gathering that I can't speak of without having to kill you, the average viewer of your channel happens to be black and under the age of 5 y/o. Sorry to ruin your absurd premise.
unclexbob 9 months ago
If I live to 77.7 years old I clearly didn't have enough fun in my 20s and 30s.
CharBroiled04 9 months ago 12
Not sure I understand. (Watching at 1 AM, cut me some slack.)
Your life expectancy as you age is always changing, b/c it's based on the life expectancy for babies born at a given time, thereby making it difficult to track the impact on life expectancy of lifestyle choices made in adulthood? Yes?
DanThePropMan 9 months ago
How can this be? Its because they are all uncircumcised surely? LOL
NoFaithNoPain 9 months ago
Damn I must have missd that yellow button. I guessed that it had to do with the fact that its far more likely that I am well off enough to survive longer, when I am able to use the internet to watch videos for education and entertainment, as opposed to being either hungry homeless addicted to drugs or all of the above, seeing as how such people would be less likely to spend much of their time using youtube to watch science videos.
GallusSapien 9 months ago
Very good video on an under discussed topic.
michalchik 9 months ago
@c0nc0rdance yup... that were conclusions based in bad study designs..
The most dangerous problem in epidemiology... We use the Epidemiology, and Introduction written by Rothman. In the first chapter, it stated that Panama has a higher life expectancy compared to Sweden in the year 2000.
:)
hedleypanama 9 months ago
no noes only the good die young i'm a evil bastard i'll live to be 200 lol
darkdragonsoul99 9 months ago
And so it was , Adam lived 930 years , Methuselah lived 969 years , Noah lived 950 years , and C0nc0rdance's subscribers ... just won't F***-ing die !!!
gaglamesh731 9 months ago
Tied to this is the rather common belief that all people lived shorter lives in the past. They hear that life expectancy was 50 years and somehow think that everyone dropped dead at that age. This is of course not true. They simply had more early deaths that takes down the average but people who survived illness and injury etc lived just as long in the past as they do now, there were just fewer of them. This is a perticular pet peeve of mine.
ingsve 9 months ago
Woah, a c0nc0rdance I don't agree with!? It's doubtful that I'm living to be 50 let alone almost 80.
Genderator 9 months ago
Very good video Concordance. One of the most informative for me personally in a long while - because this was something I had never really considered. I have always assumed this kind of argumentation was mostly bullshit based by how it is usually presented in the usual huckster-fashion - but now I actually know specifically what the flaw is. That is nice to know :)
Kind of goes to show - statistics are hard to understand and easy to manipulate. Friend of both scientist and snake oil salesman ;)
TheStigma 9 months ago
By the same reasoning, statistics over sate the incidence of divorce, because they do not filter out serial marriages.
nothingUnrealExists 9 months ago 2
Does this statistical fallacy pop up in any applications other than longevity. I'm drawing a blank right now.
Astrobrant2 9 months ago
Wish you would get a nice mic!
zapo147 9 months ago
dur
mboundtogether 9 months ago
In other words, the older I get, the longer I'll live!
LOL
Astrobrant2 9 months ago
I see what you did there.
Enuvrack 9 months ago
I'm unsubscribing!... Just so that I can subscribe all over again. Gonna live to 154 baby!
McPrfctday 9 months ago 28
I sure hope tissue engineering and gene therapy push up life expectancy - in fact, if I become wealthy, I'll donate to those kinds of research.
It may be far off but I'd like to see cancer, cardiovascular disease and dementia all licked :-P Wouldn't wish any of those on anyone.
Jotto999 9 months ago
I'm going to tell my doctor he should start recommending C0nc0rdance.
ErikBarmon 9 months ago 2
I have formulated a drink that is equivalent to a juice made from the Tree of Life that was in the Garden of Eden and is mentioned in Genesis 3:22. It grants immortality to anyone who swallows it. Of course, the FDA testing is going to take forever!
8WholeThing 9 months ago
but seriously Badminton players do live longer lives, i know it to be true as i am not dead yet :p
Toothbrush732 9 months ago
hahahah oh C0nc0rdance we love you too! <3
YeaImob 9 months ago
Living a long time is overrated anyways. If you're so old that your arthritic hands can't strangle someone to death, what's the point going on living? Instead of one of those necklaces with the button to alert people that you've fallen and can't get up, I want a gun to blow my brains out. Once you can't get yourself up, times up.
TheOriginOfSpecious 9 months ago
@TheOriginOfSpecious I agree - but as our life expectancy goes up, our standard of life at old age has also gone up. Before - if you developed a hip problem or broke it you were fucked. Now they put in a brand new one that is stronger than the one you friggin had to begin with...
If you take reasonably well care of yourself, you can get very old and still be pretty active. my grandmother hiked regularly until she was 88, and she didn't have close to the medical tricks I have available to me.
TheStigma 9 months ago
Well, peer pressure at an early age plays a big role in boys eating meat or risk being teased. It only get's worse as they age and they enter the world of "Real men eat meat, f@gs don't" :/
again2021 9 months ago
@again2021 No, most people eat meat because they like it, peer pressure is such a tiny insignificant vector it's not really worth mentioning.
When I was at school, about a year ago, nobody cared what people ate. It's of such astronomically tiny significance to someone's character and I find it hilariously ironic that vegans raise the argument.
ihaterobbie123 9 months ago
Good video. I am afraid, however, that I will mess up your statistics greatly, because I intend to live forever.
RuskePerson 9 months ago
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@RuskePerson "Good video. I am afraid, however, that I will mess up your statistics greatly, because I intend to live forever"
Me, too. So far, so good.
8WholeThing 9 months ago
If you stop making videos before I reach 78 will I still get my live extended or will I feel those 2 extra years suddenly get sucked out of me like a mini version of when the guy in Indiana Jones drinks from the wrong holy grail?
CrossKnights 9 months ago