What We Get Wrong About Life Expectancy
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- Don't be fooled by life expectancy statistics.
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Are you surprised that the life expectancy in the United States has gone down over the past four years?
Not in the slightest, what with so many extra deaths from COVID.
In a capitalist dystopia? Not at all
No, because COVID-19. And rising suicide rate.
No
@@nicholaswise5818 ah yes the life qualities of non-capitalist countries are way better, just check out the amazing living conditions of countries like Cuba and Vietnam
30 year difference in one state that's pretty crazy.
No it’s not, it’s misleading because Hutto is a big retirement town with relatively few kids and young people.
@@jamesSmith-im5jothat’s the point lol
Well yeah it actually differs person to person believe it or not.
It's not like you just go somewhere and all the sudden you change.
Crazy? I was crazy once
I remember when my late husband learned that having a major mental health diagnosis; like he did; tanked his life expectancy by 20+ years. Freaked him out a little. Yeah. LATE husband. Died of cancer at 44, directly related to the meds he took (caused chronic acid reflux, never got treated properly, bingo bango, esophageal cancer). 🤦♀️
Mr. Beat has the superpower of recognising what my current shower thoughts are and making them into a video
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Great explanation
@@iammrbeat I started regularly going to the gym, though my non-existent upper body strength has proven it to be difficult
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“Long MrBeat isn’t real. He can’t hurt you.”
Long MrBeat:
Thats misleading!
How dare you mislead us!
This is misinformation. How dare you!
i thought this was a mr beast joke
The problem with using averages as a metric is that they often summarize too much. A lot of nuance within the data is left out
Mos def
yeah, same with GDP and other stats. Gives a good big-picture but sometimes the devil's in the details
@1224chrisng yeah but too much detail makes it harder to manipulate how the data is perceived by the general public. Hence highly summarized statistics often from manipulated data(either through omission or intentionally mislabeled data points)are the most often used for the general public.
@@iammrbeat it's simple mathematics
So tru
basically, class decides how long you live
Coupled with education.
@@cristiewentz8586 Now how much do you think that correlates with class?
@@TheSpecialJ11 depends on the country under discussion, probably.
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Always has been
There are some exceptions though like with Cuba somehow having a higher life expectancy than USA even though USA is wayyyy richer
As a texan, hearing “hooto” for Hutto is fucking hilarious
This is so real
Right
I was giggling so hard at that
As somebody born and raised in Hutto that gave me severe whiplash and physically hurt.
@@steeeliertitan lol, i grew up there
Thank You! Life expectancy misconceptions are a pet peeve of mine having anthropology and classics degrees. 30 years was not "old" in ancient times, people lived to 70s and 80s. Infant mortality was high, young people died, but if you made it past being a young adult, you could live long. Look at Antipater 81, Parmenion 70 (murdered), Augustus 75, and Tiberius 77 as examples.
That is one of the biggest myths of all (that people in their 30s were "old" in ancient times)
Man, i hate it when I get diagnosed with Murdered.
@@iammrbeat I have had professors, who are all very intelligent people, promote this myth. It infuriates me.
@@knightshade2654 well it depends man. People in the past aged and matured much more quickly, married sooner, had kids sooner, became grandparents sooner. It wouldn’t be unusual to be a grandad at 45. Someone who’s had a tough life will absolutely look like a 60 year old by 45. Sure you weren’t old old at 30, but by that age you’d have had 4-5 kids (half of which would’ve died).
@@emanueldobos8452 You are definitely right, but people tend to believe that living to thirty back in even the eighteenth century was akin to living to your eighties today due to the misconception of what the average life expectancy is.
Life expectancy is the highest for monks and nuns, in fact the difference in life expectancy between them is only 1 year, meaning that most male deaths occur earlier than women's deaths because of non-biological reasons.
@@-haclong2366 I was coming to say that the difference isn't specifically money, it's career and health care, specifically.
Life expectancy is lower for miners, fisherman, oil rig workers, and construction workers, than it is for librarians.
As for Nuns and Monks it makes sense because they eat healthy and they live a low-stress life.
Stress is slowly killing many of us.
Hutto (Hut-tow) also used to be a sleepy rural town where older people lived. It's grown a ton and gotten a lot younger in the past 5 years though so life expectancy might change a bunch
Bro I was just about to comment on his pronunciation of Hutto
Yea it's much bigger now I used to live there
One of my best friends in high school lived there some 15 years ago. Williamson County in general has been exploding.
Also: The way Mr. Beat pronounced Hutto was like nails on a chalkboard
Hippo Nation!
@@moethebartender420 oh boy a place where everything is burnt orange
Unites States' life expectancy: 😁
West Virginia's life expectancy: 😵
Yep
West Virginia just needs to join Virginia. The worst mistake a state would ever do is leaving your sugar daddy.
@@chad2522 the sugar daddy committed an act of treason tho
@@rothnirtull4254 Yea, but now the views are pretty similar and they should rejoin. The “Treasonous” state that had to go through a war is way much better off than West Virginia.
@@chad2522 come and take our opioids, you treasonous bastard
the mere fact that your life expectancy is tied directly to how much money you make is proof enough that this system is broken
This is actually a really fun thing to explain to people especially in a historical context. It's really common to hear people talk about how short lived people were in say, mideval times where the average life expectancy was something like 35 when the majority of that discrepancy from today was caused by infant death rates.
Kinda interesting to see people's perspective change on something they've always just assumed was different than it was
Thats simply wrong. You're ignoring that the life expectancy does increase at all age group. You can look up the life expectancy at age 15 and see an increasing trend throughout this century
Fun fact, historical infant mortality and modern unavliving babies about match up. Obviously they don’t count it like it do.
@@Centrioless It's not wrong. Sure there were many more factors that end your life.
When you turned 15 you'd have good chances to turn 30.
So when you turn 30, you have good chances to make it to 50 and so on
That's basically what he said
@@AJNxSIt is wrong. They said the _majority_ of the discrepancy was caused by _infant_ mortality, whereas with medieval life expectancy at 25 yo still only being 50.7 yo, actually less than 40% of the discrepancy can be attributed to _childhood_ mortality
We have data from for example sweden for the last two centuries for life expectancy at birth and age 10 and he's right it's less than 50% decrease in child mortality and more than 50% people just dieing later. Child mortality under the age of 10 only hit hard in certain years, for example if there is a famine but it barely ever hit the 50% threshold of influence on that statistic and nearly never account for the 'majority of discrepance'. It's allways a factor but the majority of us indeed just dies later.
People always forget that child mortality was the biggest reason life expectancy was always so low. Like people love to point out "well, what about these people who lived to be 90" or something like that, ignoring the fact that throughout most of history, most people died before their first birthday or even during childbirth
Yep!
I appreciate that you recognize the misleading claim that people live longer now. Its not that we're necessarily living longer and healthier, its that we arent dying as children.
Holy shit those Texas numbers are astounding.
Lot of hippos in hutto
@@patrickmahomes2591 Right 😂
@@patrickmahomes2591 do y'all say hutto like the guy said it?
@@Edtuma no you say it like Hut-o. I ate dinner there once.
It really is. The class disparity in America is mind-boggling sometimes
Here in just the city of Washington DC, in the very wealthy and aristocratic parts of the city the life expectancy is ~98 years, while in the areas with lots of crime and urban decay the life expectancy is ~67 years. A 3 decade difference in life expectancy between people who only live a few miles apart.
Culture determines your life.
If you think selling drugs, smoking and drinking are great past times, your life expectancy will reflect that 😂
@@carlpanzram7081 It's really funny you say that because that is the same argument that was used to justify segregation in America. Let me spell it out for you, that's racist.
@@yourmom-y3bIt’s true though and many black Americans are actively speaking out against the detrimental inner city culture that’s shaving decades of their children’s lives. Cowards like BLM and other Marxist organizations would rather run with their I’ll gotten donations and burn down cities than dare help a single black neighborhood or improve inner city culture.
@@yourmom-y3bsegregation wasn’t justified on culture but on racial pseudoscience. Russians smoke, drink, and do drugs and also die really fast because it’s not a culture conducive to longevity
@@yourmom-y3band?
That’s how statistics work, you get some stat that’ll give you a sense of the entire population but of course when selecting a small sample then of course there’s gonna be some variance.
Right, but the point of the video is that there is extremely useful information that is often left out by averaging certain things
This is the fallacy of statistics, they tend to overshadow a lot of data
Literally just conditional probability but bro is acting like this is super profound (not you-the guy who made the video)
He's not wrong. When people hear life expectancy averages (eg life expectancy in the middle ages was 30) it *leads them* to the *wrong conclusion* (eg that most people in the middle ages died in their 30s). It is, therefore, misleading. By definition.
yup@@RickYorgason
"The data shows that the average-"
"That's misleading!"
@Person11068nobody ever mentioned that the average life expectancy is what each and every individual is going to live, that’s a misleading strawman, it’s called an average for a reason you mor on, this video is even more mor onic for making a whole case about this stupid misinterpretation.
@@guillermo3412bro never learned the rule of proportional ink.
@Person11068 i already know what a strawman is, based on your comment alone it doesn’t seem that you know what a strawman is so I’m going to define it to you and then you explain to me why that doesn’t fit a proper description of what the creator of the video did.
A strawman is a misleading interpretation of an opponents argument in order to make it seem weaker or easier to attack.
@Person11068 so tell me now, how is the whole video not just a big strawman?
@@prod.arcsyne2990 btw that’s an ad hominem, but either way what does that have to do with anything, the rule of proportional ink has nothing to do with what we’re talking about, so that’s just a mo ronic claim.
Money may not buy happiness, but it does buy you a longer life...
Great you get to enjoy a shittier life for longer!
facts
not really. It looks like that in america because they give you shitty food and then you pay them to give you pills. A scheme. Americans could live longer with less money but they are fat and can’t resist shity food
but what if money/currencies never existed? Will everyone live longer?
I have negative net worth, so I guess I’ll just wait for the Grim Reaper to come knocking on my door.
But that is also misleading because older people are more likely to have more wealth, and thus the concentration of older people in a wealthy area is going to be higher.
Shh, you’re going to ruin it for the sheeple who blame everything on the so-called wealth gap.
The concentration of older people has almost no impact on the life expectancy
@@LuckyCharms777 Older people do not have a longer life expectancy than younger people. If anything, it would be lower. So age has no effect. It must be other things then, wealth being one of them.
@@LuckyCharms777 why would a 90 yo be much richer than a 60 yo from the same initial wealth class?
@@nikolaybelousov1070
Because a 90 year old had 30 more years to accumulate wealth.
Also, the older you are, the higher your life expectancy (though that decays)
Mind blown
Indeed. I remember reading that at 98, your life expectancy is an additional 2.5 years. Not sure what the point is where your current age plus life expectancy gets to 100, though. I also remember reading that if you make it to 65, your life expectancy is 16 years.
@@wvu05 when you hit 100 you can die at any moment quite literally so life expectancy is no longer calculated. pretty wild.
@@wvu05 anyone know a good website showing these stats? Id be interested if anyone has the link
@@R-Penguin I saw them in random articles about 20 years ago discussing the likelihood of Strom Thurmond dying in office and discussing Social Security. I wish I knew where you could find a more comprehensive list.
Show this to anyone that says money can't buy you time...
It's more likely that wealth and healthy living share a common cause. If you are healthy, it's easier to make money. If you have a lot of self discipline, it's easier to be wealthy. It's also more likely you will eat well, exercise, avoid smoking, etc.
@@DJ_Forcealso if you don't have money you can't buy good food, pay any medical bills(if you have those), get yourself anything to keep your spirits up, potentially be unable to pay for heating in the winter or even be stuck outside(which is a death sentence in many places), spend time with anyone because you have to use the time to make money, even paying your regular living expenses is a challenge.
Anything you need is tied to your wealth so if you're poor you have a lower life expectancy, you don't have time to worry about exercise depending on how busy you are making enough money for your bills, that applies to hanging out with friends or just enjoying some time to yourself aswell, and buying something you want while could help temporarily will soon be a detriment as you realize you don't have enough time to use it and it was a waste of money that could have been used to lighten the pressure just living is putting on you.
Not being able to interact with anyone, buy anything you want, or enjoy your own time means lower self esteem, loneliness, and eventual depression, if you don't have money you can barely function in today's society because our basic needs are tied to it and eventually your mind will crumble when it realizes you're not living your surviving and you're not enjoying any of it, this realization leads to higher death to self and a lower life expectancy if you're food and water or heating doesn't take you out first. It's also why a lot of poor people are alcoholics when from the outside they should be saving that money, the alcohol is often the only reason they are still going. Basically being poor sucks 0/10 don't recommend.
My family was poor but my parents are really good with money and while we weren't rich we visibly lived comfortably despite fighting to get bills paid and having enough food(for a family of 5, two girls and me), eventually they went on link and would spend the extra money that went to food on us kids to have something to entertain us or things around the house, they really didn't need too Christmas and birthdays with family much better off meant we always had something anyway but it's more the principle of "our parents should spend some money on us" but eh we lived. When I was 11-12 we moved from the apartment we lived in to an actual house, the place looked terrible on the outside and was just as messed up structurally but it was a house and it was something we owned and I still love it to this day because they still live there honestly my old room is still my favorite room ever.
Basically despite struggling we were really good at ignoring it but it was cause they weren't alone, my parents had each other(despite having their own problems hell they divorced 3 times), my mom spent and still does spend all of her time working she used to work in a factory but got fired after so many years there but now she takes care of mentally handicapped people, my dad raised us, he had anger issues and a drinking problem but he's doing much better.
And all this is to say despite my previous tangent I'm not saying its impossible to live comfortably despite being poor and it's not impossible to enjoy life when poor but you have to know exactly how much money you have, don't have children trust me my parents would have been fine if they didn't have 3, have a partner who can split the costs, love or just friends, because if you live like my mom did you run into the problem of having no time for yourself, and it's way better if you have wealthy family and you actually pay them back, there are so many times my family fell back on my grandparents but the moment we got out of it my parents were quick to pay them back. It's the same reason when I lend money I'm lenient but I make sure the person doesn't forget, I keep the exact money they owe in a notebook and am always okay if they want it to pay it back in small bits, I do the same thing when I'm lent money so I know the exact amount owed and due at all times.
@@DJ_Forcealso vice versa if youre wealthy you are able to eat healthier than someone who is poor in a food desert
@@osoretro2721food desert mentioned 👀
@@osoretro2721Eating healthy is extremely inexpensive.
The issue is really more tied to culture and the environmental factors that develop because of it.
For instance, you don't need to be very wealthy to eat mostly vegetables and animal products. You don't even need to be wealthy to have access to knowledge about what exactly is healthy or not.
What you need is both the motivation and the ability to actually make those decisions. If the environment your grew up in led to lowered impulse controll, disregarded proper nutrition as a important part of life, and doesn't value education, then you could be extremely wealthy, and you would still die of a McDonald's and macncheese induced heart attack. (and probably smoking, alcohol, and other expensive but detrimental things)
So, it's really not about wealth at all.
My Mom lasted until 93. I learned it is not how much money you have, but how much gratitude.
Gratitude isn't gonna stop cancer
My life lasted for 56 years.
It was a blast
@@kingkazuma2239 Funny.
Ripsky
@@kingkazuma2239 :skull:
I died 20 years ago but I never filled out the paperwork so I'm still collecting a salary.
Hi. Austin resident and life insurance agent here. Firstly, It’s HUT-OH, not HOOT-OH. HUTTO. Also, there’s a big difference between “Life Expectancy” and “Average Life Expectancy.” Life expectancy is a ten year age range of someone’s supposed mortality. In the colloquial sense, one’s personal life expectancy refers to their median life expectancy, the middle point in the age range. Life expectancy can differ wildly from person to person, but we gather an aggregate to determine the average life expectancy of a group of people in an area. This helps give actuaries a rough estimate of the premium rates the company needs to collect to pay out all of the projected death claims that year.
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lol these pronunciation warriors always crack me up
@@iammrbeat what about his other point tho?
Dude just discovered how averages work
Ok so let me break it down for you
More wealth = better health = longer life
Is that simple enough? Or do i need to explain private health care in America?
@@hamburgerdan101what? That has nothing to do with what he’s saying lmao. Obviously an average is going to have very high numbers and very low numbers
Idk who of you three is more wrong @@Travixty
@@EstrogenCubing they honestly just kept getting dumber
@@hamburgerdan101 What are you going on about. Thats not at all an definite representation of things at all.
“There are lies and there are damn lies; and then you have statistics.” - Mark Twain
I was literally assigned a book called How to Lie with Statistics for a critical thinking class
Wow! My life must be a lie. If statistics aren't true, then what is? 🤔🤔
Contrary to what the video says, it’s not a misleading statistic. It’s the average across all of the US population, of course there’s going to be variance based on class, age, location, etc.
To give an example, it’s like saying “the average price of a pillow is misleading because Walmart offers a lower price on them compared to Target.” Well yeah, it’s an average. Basically any statistic is misleading if this is your logic.
What makes a statistic “misleading” isn’t the actual statistic, but how people use that statistic to mislead people. Nobody is saying that life expectancy is the same across regions, age, and class.
@@chrisbrowy929 Yes, population matters! For example, statistically, I’m the smartest, best-looking, most entertaining person of any of the other people I personally know in this thread…. 🤷🏻♂️😂👍🏼
Man really just called Hutto huddo 🤣🤣
Exactly I used to work in a cafe there
@@stjiub2201 what cafe. I lived there growing up
@@eddiewt3303I'll bet Texan Cafe. That's the only one that sticks around. There's been a number of others in my lifetime, but they all seem to shut down eventually.
Maybe not now though because the growth is so extreme the city is basically unrecognizable.
Ikr I nearly threw up lol
@@marafolse8347mmm those pies were heavenly
As someone who’s from Fort Worth and whose parents live there and both just turned 66…. That is unsettling.
As a Fort Worth citizen, I partially blame the lower life expectancy on Lisa’s Chicken for being too good. Idk if it’s shaved off decades for me, but the stuff is delicious
don't eat fried food. it's delicious now, it's hell to pay later
@@nosepicker1999Fast food and diet have a negligible impact compared to wealth. As long as you can afford healthcare it doesn’t matter
Lisa’s truly is a killer, but I’ll never stop.
@@nosepicker1999 I'm here for a good time, not a long time
I read Fort Worth as forth world and was shocked, like there's a 4th world now? Where is it? What happened?
I feel like picking rich areas is more misleading though, because it seems like if old people move to a place more often because they’re rich and they want to live with the other rich oldies, the life expectancy will be higher, etc
I think the bigger question should be why does fort worth have people dying at 67. People don't move to a place to die.
@@cyruswang9354 drugs and crime, the answer is drugs and crime. They are not dying for natural causes.
Oh my god. I was about to look it up, but you just told me exactly what i needed to hear. I live in Fort Worth 💀
just be rich bro
Life expectancy in Ohio = -420.69 years
The entire state is populated by zombies. That includes Alternate History Hub BTW
Edit: But don’t worry, the zombie population of Ohio has a diet consisting mostly of corn, not brains.
Your comment just gave me AIDS
True certified fresh facts
It was ruined by Norfolk Southern
Well yes,but it is,also,misleading.
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Sam Houser isn't fat...also, what does your comment have to do with anything?
bot ahh comment
seriously what doe this comment mean and how tf did it get so many likes...? @@hugiilopez2111
What does this mean and why does it have 300+ likes
I read a book called "Outlive" that actually sort of had similar findings.
While life expectancy has increased in the past century, its largely driven by finding cures against previously untreatable diseases that killed people very early in their lives (like polio) and improvements in medicine's ability to keep people alive after they've been in a serious accidents. People who actually avoided these aren't really much healthier or live much longer than people 100 years ago.
Yea the whole, "back in the day people only lived 30 years" always annoys me because if you ignore infant mortality, they could routinely live into their 60s most points in history. There is also gender, with most places having women live longer (although historically that wasn't always the case as dying in childbirth used to be more common)
That's also misleading because your specific life expectancy is based on your medical history and that of your close relatives too! But good examples of statistics can be misleading and only give a small snapshot of the real picture.
There's also a significant difference between men and women, and while there will always be a natural gap of a couple of years (testosterone makes your blood thicker, therefore you're more prone to cardiovascular diseases), the size of that gap can tell you a lot about the sample group (take smaller gender gaps in countries with bigger maternal mortality issues, huge gaps in countries with alcohol consumption issues, although it's not always a given)
wouldn't MEDIAN life expectancy be a better measure than AVERAGE/MEAN life expectancy? This eliminates outliers
It is median life expectancy. They are both averages.
@@peterdisabella2156 no mean and median are different. Suppose you poll a group of 5 people: four are 16 years old, one is 36. The average/mean age is 20, but this group is nowhere near indicative the "average" 20 year old. A better measure here would be median (16 years old) because it eliminates outliers
This would still be dragged down a lot by infant mortality rates. If a third of all people die before age 5, then you'll still have a life expectancy of like 35 years since maybe 1/6th of people who didn't die in childhood would die between ages 5-35, but then after age 35, it's easily possible someone could live to age 90. It's just a difficult distribution to describe with one number since the spread is complicated.
@@okk yes I know what you meant. I was saying that the data he uses is the median.
Wonder how it would work if instead of a single number for life expectancy, they gave a range instead, like 68 - 78 instead of just saying 73?
Or are we meant to assume a plus/minus factor the moment an average is given?
When the life expectancy is below retirement age 😂
And at the end the logical conclusion to life expectancy rising over time is people gain access to things of higher value for less money. Such as medicine, food , clean water , and clean environment to live in. It’s not necessary misleading, it’s a great way to show how the human race is much has grown much more capable to provide basic needs to even people of lower wealth over the last couple hundred years.
That said we still got a long way to go.
The low hanging fruit of life expectancy has been infant mortality. Average age of death goes down pretty sharply when a significant number of people die before age five.
You might also note that life expectancy as a whole is misleading due to its overall practicaly to us. It assumes that the person was just born whereas most of us are teens/adults. For example someone born in 2003 would have a life expectancy of 76 years but that same person in 2019 will have it increase to 78 years because they didn't die in the first 16 years which includes infant deaths. Just by living you're beating the odds amd thus increasing your life expectancy
It’s even worse than that. It’s not the life expectancy of any person, babies included. Life expectancy is usually calculated using the cross sectional data. Meaning it’s the hypothetical life expectancy of someone born today if 60 years from now when he is sixty (if he doesn’t die earlier) his probability of making it to 61 is the same as someone who is 60 today, which most likely will not be true. It’s more of an abstract summary of yearly data than a realistic projection of anyone’s lifespan. To truly measure life expectancy of a generation, you need to wait until they are all dead.
“But that’s also misleading.” I swear, this can be turned into Gen Z Humor.
"Money cant buy happiness"
Well ApPaReNtLy it can buy TIME, HEALTH AND LIFE.
The life expectancy on a volcanic island is higher then Mississippi. Then I’m impressed.
My family has a history of long life. My great grandmas were 93 and 98 when they passed, and my great grandpa was 94. Great grandpa's mother lived to be 102, while my paternal grandpa's grandma lived to be 105. There was also an ancestor in the early 1900s who lived to be 108, but she's more distantly related.
My state is one of the worst for healthcare and life expectancies, but based on my family and my unwillingness to die, I'd say I'll live quite awhile
Me too. My great grandma was 105.
“My unwillingness to die” is a funny thing cause I don’t believe in free will
@@jalengayfield3915 well I'm proof because I'd fist fight God and Satan 1v2 the second I died, and any other higher power that wanted to have a go would be round two
@@jalengayfield3915 well if you don't belive in free will your opinion can just be dismissed. Its not even your opinion, you were predestined to say that.
@@Cyborg_Lenin it would still be my opinion
Heard this story of an old lady who made it past 114 years, how? She said she never worked a day in her life because his husband was really wealthy, so she could just chill around because she had all the money she’d need to tend her needs.
I realized a few months ago I'm probably not going to reach my full life expectancy because of inadequate access to medical care. Even with insurance, the co pays, the out of pocket and the hoops the doctors have to jump through just to get it reimbursed means that chronic problems aren't getting properly diagnosed, long time issues that might improve with minimally invasive procedures and and even just having the ability to take time of from work to adequately heal after such a procedure means I am dealing deferred medical maintenance.
The wealthy in this country aren't just robbing everybody of their money, they are stealing years from their actual life!
This is such a good short. Teach us more!
its an average, an average isnt supposed to be specifically accurate in the first place
Turns out literally no other factors need come into play because literally anything about your health comes down to how much of a 1%er you are.
Wealth = health
@Teamgeist Is that why Queen Elizabeth lived to be almost 100 in a country where the average life expectancy is barely 80?
@Teamgeist Is that before or after the British government set about gutting the NHS? Don't be stupid. Rich people can afford the kind of care most people would never even be offered, let alone afford.
Given that you're not partying like a 1%er
Me when averages don’t show the whole picture 🤯🤯🤯
It does..
It gives you an general figure.
This video is making people dumber, and it seems to be on purpose
Mentioning these things being misleading is such a very good thing. If everyone did that in informational videos, no matter how unrealistic that may seem, misinformation would be on the backfoot.
Great video. I had a morbid fascination with it.
lol thanks....and me too!
YES! I've been saying this for years how people didn't die in their 30s centuries ago when "life expectancy" was in the 30s.
Another factor people don't consider is that lifestyle and emotional well-being directly affects how long you're expected to live.
Poor people that don't do drugs and meditate live longer than rich people who are stressed and loaded with chemicals.
And yet we've got poor people out here who've been regular drug users living upwards of their 80s, and dieticians who die in their 30s or younger
Not refuting you so much as addressing the other side of the coin
But we have data from for example sweden for live expectenty over the age of 10 for the last 150years. 150 years ago they died 15 years earlier and that had gone up pretty consistently by 1a per 10a. It's ~50|50 decrease in child mortality and just living longer. Videos like this let you think that child mortality is a way bigger factor than it realy is and average doesn't mean all, but centuries ago they did die maybe not in their 30s but you wouldn't find a lot in their 70s eather. Humans naturally die in their 50s or 60s otherwise woman would be fertile way longer. The rest is technology.
I live in Fort Worth and it’s horrible how many people live on the streets without shelter or adequate supplies like food and clothing
So an average is misleading because there is a disruption within the average?
No way.
Realised this comment was quite facetious, it was an interesting video.
Wow! Used to love near hutto it’s pronounced HUT-Oh, thanks for the video! Or at least that’s how everyone from there calls it.
The variance is expected to increase a lot when you zoom in... that's how statistics work. The probability of having really huge variance is high when the dataset is smaller, so I think your point would be more compelling if you showed the overall US Population's life expectancy split into income brackets.
Makes sense that Dallas Fort Worth area has a terrible life expectancy. Lived there and my allergies alone tried to kill me.
Government: You can retire at 70
People: But on average I'm dead before I'm even 67
Government: And your problem is? Thank you for your retirement contribution. Now let me inflate that wealth away hehehehe
You can retire whenever you want. Don't rely on social security. Itll be gone before you can even use it.
@@SaintSC05okay, retire at 40 and see yourself go bankrupt because you have no green rectangles in your pocket
@@SaintSC05in many countries the government forces you to pay into pension funds. It makes it outside of your control when you can retire because you can't access those savings and you can't save much yourself because the government took it all
Thank god for those rich people dying so old and in turn giving us more life by bringing up the national average lifespan. Truly blessed 🙏
And this is why I love Mr. Beat. A good teacher teaches the material, a great teacher gives knowledge
Bro did not just call Hutto “Hoo-do” 💀
Easy mistake for a non-local to make 🤷feel free to educate
@Ari-fs6oe Hut-toe with a dentalized t (basically d) sound
That had me rolling too 😂 How are you going to mess up the town name for the best pie shop on the planet. I do miss The Texan Cafe since moving away.
Now let’s get down to brass tacks: life expectancy for certain families.
Not “Hoot-oh”, it’s Hut-oh. Talk like that round here bound to shorten your life expectancy, boy 😂
lol
None of these stats are "misleading." They're just out of context. That's how averages work.
Older people will have more time to accrue wealth, and so that will certainly skew this. It's not necessarily that wealth = long life. A big part of it is surely that long life = more time to gain wealth
I think this video is crammed full of the most meaningful information that I've ever seen in in a "short."
Did you just pronounce hut-o as hoot-o? Are you trolling Texans?
It worked on you
It's related to how stressful your life is. A rich person will live life with few stressful things, and will not have to work.
The life expectancy of Mississippi being lower than the global average is crazy.
Another important point is health span AKA the amount of your life you are capable to do what you want and take care of yourself. Health span vs life span is different and it can very a lot. Someone could be alive for 80 years but after 65 they’ve been in cognitive decline or physical decline that has impacted them so much so that those last 15 years they’re essentially home bound and need assistance in daily living. The health span in the US is probably much lower than life span because we’re so unhealthy.
My great-grandparents mostly died in their 90s, while my grandparents died in their 70s and 80s. That's made me wonder whether people are really living longer, or just dying young less often.
No one in my family lives past 70.
Eat fruits and vegetables. Exercise. Avoid chemicals and stress. I wish you nothing but health and happiness.
Yay, I am from Hutto! However, you mispronounced it… it is pronounced like Hut-O
Ohhhhh. Good thing you...and the other 500 commenters...corrected me.
I just wrote an essay on this. There's actually papers suggesting that personal wealth is only as big of a predictor of life expectancy as it is because of social and economic systems in place, and that it is possible for us to balance out the stats
And it's not just individual wealth that determines life expectancy. It's societal wealth as well. The US is the richest country in history, and our wealth has increased the average global wealth. This has allowed us to fund both medical research on a global scale AND medical outreach and education on a global scale. The poorest countries in Africa now have a higher life expectancy on average because they too have benefitted from the wealth of the global superpowers.
Capitalism works, folks.
Well put. If we do good everyone does good. Look how we control the economic system and markets.
If you intend to do good you do good. No shit
The first part is wrong.
Life expectancy does not take infant mortality into account. Life expectancy isn't the average number of years a given person will live, rather it's the average age a person born on a certain year will reach.
Basically, it's the age most old people are currently dying at, which is obvious when you think about it. Why would anyone ever care about life average? What value would it have to anyone?
Also, for anyone who still thinks life expectancy numbers are screwed downward by infants in the past, consider for a moment the fact that infant deaths are largely undocumented.
We have information about the deaths of adults because of church records. The death of an adult, especially a married one and one with property is exceptionally important to document.
Very young children on the other hand were largely ignored. Their death was a personal tragedy but of no wider consequence. We know for example of noblewomen that gave birth 10 or more times as this fact was recorded about them. We know that x children survived and y died, and frequently we have no records about the children that died. No age, no names, nothing other than that their mother had them.
The children of common people wouldn't even be a footnote in their mothers life.
I mean if you keep separating it you eventually reach the person themselves, one person can die at 20 and another can die at 90 and where they died, that’s that specific spot’s life expectancy.
yeah, this guy's a moron.
97 year life expectancy in one zip code is wild.
Bro just discovered Conditional Probability
And also older people sometimes are grouped up in one area than others so it creates a huge amount of old age life expectancy in one area
It's not misleading, it is literally called the "AVERAGE" life expectancy. Someone being too stupid to understand what the word average means does not make the data inherently misleading.
this is why we need free healthcare
The US goes down cause of drug use. Not too much because of healthcare. We get the healthcare, we just also get debt.
@@UltraGasLighterSupreme I think healthcare should include rehab if you have an addiction.
@aquari _ i think we should just do what norway does tbh. They always seem to have not many problems. Although i wanted to live there about 30 minutes ago, my friends convinced me i should stay here in the US after i made money cause it's harder to make a lot of money outside the US. Specifically in STEM as big corporations pay more here for software engineers or any sort of high skill high intelligence stem field does. They only make about 50-120k a year or something there, although that would probably go farther out there than 120k here.
@@UltraGasLighterSupreme yeah i agree norway, denmark have it figured out. Also when it comes to prisons.
50-120k seems like plenty to me. also stem fields vary a lot but are well paid across the board. If you're adequate in your field you'll make plenty, if you are a super genius you could get rich anywhere.
“Free” healthcare has nothing to do with it. You’re a child if you think that it’ll do anything other than give everyone the same default care. In other words, to get actual quality care you’ll still have to pay a lot. With “free” healthcare you just don’t have to worry about paying for some type of medical care.
This is exactly what I was thinking, like bro no, it’s not like people are actually beating death, they are just not dying as much because of illnesses, starvation and wars.
exactly why they should use mode average instead of mean average, which means we take the time where the most people die
All that'd do is set the life expectancy to 1 in countries with high infant mortality rates. Discounting infant mortality, survival curves are roughly sigmoid, so the mean and modal age at death are roughly equal
Disliked due to the mispronounced city of Hutto.
Ok
Lol
My ss teacher used to use your videos for our lessons but this is the first time actually finding this channel through a yt short lol
"I assume most of you watching are from North America".
Typical American, thinking they're the centre and majority of the world.
I mean, TH-cam shows content creators where their viewership is located. I'm sure it's not an uneducated assumption.
center*
This is the most stupid comment I ever see and I am even or not American
Bro you are not making fun of American you are making fun of yourself😂
I just wasted a minute of my life watching a guy learn what an average is💀
My biggest flex is that this guy was my history teacher for 2 years in high school
I don't think my dude understands the meaning of average.
I actually think he was explaining the meaning of average in a convoluted way
@@yungkaleidoif you claim that the statement of "the life expectancy is the highest in the recorded history" as "misleading" then yes you definitely don't get the meaning of average.
@@gaarakabuto1it can be misleading for various reasons
@@zwag4068 if the total average is the total average of your data then there is nothing misleading.
If you say that the absolute factor of your age expectancy is your wealth that's completely misleading when the two countries with the highest expectancy and recorded elders are not particularly wealthy or at least are not known for performing too well in wealth eqality.
I would ssy the the life expectancy is well above 80 in Sun City, as opposed to the trailer park down the road.
It's also misleading because most of your life expectancy is determined by your own choices and behaviors, in the United States at least.
And circumstances
Essentially, “averages take a lot of conflicting and diverse things and squash them down into one number”
Thank God I'm almost done. I'm half way there. Thank you for the good news
Averages get you every time. Averages over broad time periods, geographical areas, and wealth levels get you every time, several times over.
Obviously with money you can buy better food get better healthcare and most importantly not be incredibly stressed every week for 40 years