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Take the quiz, don't take it too seriously etc. My results:

Life Expectancy Results

Life Expectancy: 78.15
Lower Quartile : 69.69
Median Lifetime: 81.37
Upper Quartile : 90.19

Ahh:

Life Expectancy Results
Life Expectancy: 80.96
Lower Quartile : 73.74
Median Lifetime: 83.52
Upper Quartile : 91.06

This test is ridiculous. It's not thorough or specific enough, and it expects you to have the answers to questions like "how many thousands of miles do you drive a year." How the fuck should I know that? I don't keep track.

Anyway, I got 88, but I'm pretty damned sure that I don't trust that number at all. I've always pegged myself as going in my 70's at best. I have history of heart disease and the diabeetus in my family, neither of which was addressed in that test because they only ask about immediate relatives who, in my case, aren't old enough to have those things affect them yet.

Life Expectancy: 67.57
Lower Quartile : 59.96
Median Lifetime: 70.36
Upper Quartile : 77.44

Anyway, some sexism in the test:

The driver of the automobile which I most frequently travel in is a male/female

EdoI wrote:Anyway, some sexism in the test:

The driver of the automobile which I most frequently travel in is a male/female

I smell ignorant liberal.
It's not sexism; it's statistics. Males are meaningfully more likely to crash and die horribly. Like, causation has been established and everything.

What if I said "females are more likely to have ovaries"? Would you call me sexist then?

I think he means, "My mommy drives like a maniac."

Tsukatu wrote:

EdoI wrote:Anyway, some sexism in the test:

The driver of the automobile which I most frequently travel in is a male/female

I smell ignorant liberal.
It's not sexism; it's statistics. Males are meaningfully more likely to crash and die horribly. Like, causation has been established and everything.

What if I said "females are more likely to have ovaries"? Would you call me sexist then?

or he means that it shouldnt matter.
depends on the driver.
Then again, males get drunk more often...