The Longevity Gambit

A little pandering to my subscribers, as I approach 20,000, but also an important statistical trick found in non-scientific discussions of lifestyle.

Life Expectancy Charts:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/lifexpec.htm

List of countries by life expectancy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy

AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is a new microphone donated by a family member... not happy with quality.

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• Longevity
• Gambit
• c0nc0rdance
• age
• life
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• tables
• statistics
• actuarial
• deception
• trick
• aging
• fraud
• health

[IdaMiaDot]

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.

[C0nc0rdance]

@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.

[WarmWeatherGuy]

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.

[IdaMiaDot]

@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.

[RoScFan]

@IdaMiaDot Meat is murder! Delicious, delicious murder, yummy…..

[YoricksSkull]

and, on the other hand, try to have as many subscribers from Japan as possible. 

[YoricksSkull]

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.

[Snagabott]

Hah! In your fuckin face, national average!

[supermanlypunch]

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.

[Jacksilver2]

@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 :)

[medexamtoolsdotcom]

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]

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]

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.