How Well You Can Estimate the Age to Which You Will Live. What Has Discovered a Study Carried Out for 28 Years
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How much do you think you will live? The answer might be closer to reality than you would think, but there is a major error that people frequently do. A study that followed older adults in Japan for up to 28 years shows that people who expected to live longer have generally had a longer life span, but about 59% of the participants whose data could be analyzed lived longer than they had estimated, Science Alert shows.
Older Adults Often Underestimate How Long They'll Actually Live
Older people often have a good idea of how long they have left to live, and those who get it wrong tend to err on the pessimistic side, researchers say. A study using data from the long-running National Survey of the Japanese Elderly found that people who believed they'd live...
A study of thousands of older adults in Japan suggests that people who believe they will live longer tend, indeed, to have a longer life span.
How long will we live? Older people in Japan were not completely out of date with their estimates, but often underestimated their lifetime. In a 28-year observational study, around 59 percent lived longer than expected. Because the work so far is only available as a preprint and investigates correlations, it does not prove an exact death forecast or a life prolonging effect of optimistic expectations. [...] The article Many people underestimate …
Over 28 years, Japanese researchers compared the longevity predictions of 2,447 people to their actual lifespan. A systematic bias in underestimation emerged.
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