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Most of the advances in life expectancy were achieved by reducing infant mortality. In Miedeval Britain average life expectancy was 30. Very misleading though
by 300bps 13y ago
Most of the advances in life expectancy were achieved by reducing infant mortality. In Miedeval Britain average life expectancy was 30. Very misleading though. If you made it to adulthood your life expectancy was 64.
I've never seen anyhing to back up your assertion. Do you have a source for your life expectancy prediction?
Source for historic life expectancy: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy
Also isn't it funy how incredible things are always "20 years away"? You might want to rewatch the movies 2001 and 2010 to see where many people thought we would be technologically over a decade ago.
- leephillips 13y agoYou're right about life expectancy statistics, but I wasn't talking about that. I was talking about research into aging. "Do you have a source for your life expectancy prediction?" I can't get to it now, as I'm sitting on it. In other words, I'm not a biologist and I was making a wild guess. I was trying to make the point that our life expectancies may be significantly longer than we think because they are partly the product of medical knowledge that does not exist now but will be created during our lives. But I should not have used a specific number.
- 300bps 13y agoWell here's a source that contradicts your prediction: http://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html http://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html According to that, a 58 ear old male in 2009 can expect to live to 80. That link represents the best information we have available today. Could there be some miracle cure for aging in the next 20 years? Probably not but maybe. Will it help the person who is 78 when it is discovered? Almost definitely not - the aging damage has been done!