Old Sklansky Post

GoodOL · #1 06-20-2005, 08:46 PM

Quite a while ago, David Sklansky posted a question regarding life span. He asked at what age would someone have a 50% chance of dying within the next year (or something to that effect). Does anyone have the link for that post (I tried searching...but could not find)? Thank you.

Dov · #2 06-20-2005, 09:02 PM

I remeber that post.

You are going to have to search the archive server. I think it's about a year old.

valejo · #3 06-21-2005, 06:03 AM

See, this is the reason I decided against becoming an actuary. Good money, math all day, but morbid.

tek · #4 06-21-2005, 08:52 AM

Plus a deimal point wrong place off and you lose your job [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

AaronBrown · #5 06-21-2005, 09:01 AM

Standard tables cap at 40%, at age 106 for males and 115 for females. These are death rates for people who are healthy at the beginning of the year.

pudley4 · #6 06-21-2005, 10:20 AM

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