Longevity: Making Boomer Women's Worry More Concrete

In a previous blog I addressed the worry of a growing number of women boomers: longevity. Just to drive the point home (and explain my calendar above for 30 years from now), I'll share this online source for making your worry more concrete: Life Calculator at http://gosset.wharton.upenn.edu/mortality/second_version.html

The statisticians behind this calculator took a number of variables into account, including left- and right-handed-ness, appreciated by all us left-handers who are aware that statistically speaking we die earlier than right-handers. I recall learning of this handed-ness research as a young woman and feeling aghast that I would be shorted years of life. Over the years, the aghast-ness has dissipated, partly because I know the statistic may merely reflect a cohort effect (stats from the olden days being compared to modern times and essentially a different population) and partly because I figure I'll be ready to go a few years early.

To take a shorter questionnaire (with nearly the same result), just back up the URL to http://gosset.wharton.upenn.edu/mortality and to learn more about the academic responsible for this work, keep backing up the URL to http://gosset.wharton.upenn.edu.

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