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How can we have a productive discussion about why women live longer than men when the most common cause of death before old age in men is suicide? Here is a da
by belorn 8y ago
How can we have a productive discussion about why women live longer than men when the most common cause of death before old age in men is suicide?
Here is a data question, how does the average life span change if you remove suicide as a factor for both women and men? All the other factors that the article hints to like hormones, biology, smoking habits, animal studying, and so on are interesting but unless one address the most common cause of early death then this seem a bit dishonest.
It also seems odd of the article to not acknowledge attributes that is correlated with long life span. A large social network, having people around you at old age, good mental health and stress treatments. Those all have sex difference in outcomes and are highly connected to life spans, but completely missing from the article.