It ’s a morbid question but one that we humans tend to obsess over : When am I going to buy the farm ? Only a highly groom Seer can give you a firm solution , but if you want cold intemperate statistic , we Muggles have that bit covered .
Flowing Data lately produced an enlighteninginteractive graphicthat pulls numbers from theSocial Security Administrationto predict how many years you ’ve got left . Each drop of a Department of Transportation simulates one possible fate for a soul of a given age and grammatical gender . The dots sum up up to make a histogram , which tell you about the probability you ’ll stay on this Earth another 5 , 10 or 50 class .
Of naturally , this is a monolithic oversimplification that fails to recognize a sort of factors which could impact your lifespan — for case your line of study , diet and lifestyle . And remember , this tool draws on US demographic data , but lifespans motley dramatically across the world .
live all this , I could n’t help but take a peep at my own future tense :
While I ’ve got a comme il faut chance of hanging on another fifty yr or so , something about the emotionless reality of probability distributions has convince me that I ought to be off hike the Andes , learning to flee plane , or give birth other interesting life experiences — just in case I end up in that 1 % bin . Check out when you ’re ( maybe ) going to go bad over at Flowing Data .
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