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Your Zip Code Could Indicate When You Will Die
Business Insider ^ | 07/12/2013 | MEGAN WILLETT

Posted on 07/12/2013 7:38:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Edited on 07/12/2013 7:43:53 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Where you live in the U.S. could affect your lifespan, according to a new report from the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington that was just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.


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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: death; health; lifeexpectancy; longetivy; redstates; virginia; zipcode
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1 posted on 07/12/2013 7:38:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

What a surprise. The bastions of liberalism, replete with public services and entitlements, are better for life expectancy that places where you’re expected to fend for yourself and life free.

I’ll choose liberty over security any day.


2 posted on 07/12/2013 7:45:16 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: rarestia

I haven’t read the article but I assume it’s the hospitals and the general high standards of the doctors.


3 posted on 07/12/2013 7:49:45 AM PDT by miss marmelstein ( Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: SeekAndFind

So like a gal in her 50’s moves to a good zip code she’ll live longer? Or maybe if she’s in her 80’s she’ll live to be 110???


4 posted on 07/12/2013 7:49:52 AM PDT by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: rarestia

I’d want to check this research a little deeper. I cannot imagine that inner city dwellers would have a longer life expectancy. It just fits way too conveniently with a liberal agenda.


5 posted on 07/12/2013 7:49:54 AM PDT by alancarp (Obama will grab your guns and ship them to Mexican drug mobs.)
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To: SeekAndFind

wow- you plug in data and you get numbers! and that MEANS SOMETHING!!!!

who could have thought

And just think- wherever the sun rose today, some people died! So the sun causes death

And here’s and even more stunning “statistic” - some people were BORN!!!! so - the sun causes pregnancy

And if you average all the birthdays in your zip code, you will find more people were born in some months than others- so, your zip code says when you will be born too!! By the laws of averages, you will NOT change the average by any amount when you die, you will just DIE AT THE AVERAGE date!!!

That’s how it works, you see- averages CAUSE the deaths to occur. It’s all this science-y stuff, you know?


6 posted on 07/12/2013 7:53:44 AM PDT by Mr. K (There are lies, damned lies, statistics, and democrat talking points.)
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To: SeekAndFind

If the government spends a lot of money on health services in your area, you live longer. That can’t possibly be tied to the ObamaCare PR blitz, can it? These stats are probably almost as bogus as the Labor Dept.’s unemployment numbers.


7 posted on 07/12/2013 7:53:44 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: SeekAndFind

San Francisco is number two for males. Lotta dead AIDS sufferers, I guess.


8 posted on 07/12/2013 7:54:10 AM PDT by Kenton
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To: rarestia

I would have guessed the opposite, considering the comparative crime and homicide rates.


9 posted on 07/12/2013 7:54:26 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: MrB

Those were my exact thoughts as well, MrB.


10 posted on 07/12/2013 7:55:22 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Zip = Gone?


11 posted on 07/12/2013 7:56:38 AM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama equals Osama))
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To: SeekAndFind

Obviously, God loves rural Southerners and calls them home sooner!

Seriously, to get an accurate picture, race, country of birth and economic status must be factors. Also, I wonder what the results would be if only people above the age of, say 50, are included. Infant mortality, “Hey Bubba, watch this” mortality from dumb adolescent stunts and occupational deaths can really skew the results.

On the other hand, if a significant portion of your population has never done manual labor and instead migrated to your county as well paid office workers/managers/executives, they you will have a better rating. Kill most of your babies through abortion and you take very few hits from infant mortality.

Once again, Mark Twain (or actually, Disraeli) must be evoked: “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”


12 posted on 07/12/2013 7:56:40 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ("To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"- Voltaire)
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To: rarestia

Dig more deeply, and it is the wealthy areas within the blue states that have longer lifespans, not those on entitlements. Longevity is largely class-based across the country, it is only that the concentrations of that demographic vary by region.


13 posted on 07/12/2013 8:03:14 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: rarestia
I’ll choose liberty over security any day

Ditto... They can have the uber-regulated life in CA and NY. I choose to spend my final years where vestiges of liberty still exist.

14 posted on 07/12/2013 8:09:26 AM PDT by ScottinVA ( Liberal is to patriotism as Kermit Gosnell is to neonatal care.)
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To: miss marmelstein

I haven’t done the comparison, but I’d bet the correlation between county income and lifespan is quite strong.


15 posted on 07/12/2013 8:18:19 AM PDT by Pecos (If more sane people carried guns, fewer crazies would get off a second shot.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Your Zip Code Could Indicate When You Will Die”
typical stupid headline. Pure hype, designed to get you to read the article which then disappoints.

This is an invalid correlation. Zip code is arbitrarily assigned and does not vary in accordance with longevity. Obviously the average life expectancy of people in one area is NOT the same as in another. Otherwise they would all be the same.

The expectancy for people living in Siberia is not the same as for people living in Egypt.

The postal code is irrelevant. The correlation is between the type of person living there and the expectancy. Not the postal code. But that would be politically incorrect.


16 posted on 07/12/2013 8:30:33 AM PDT by I want the USA back (If I Pi$$ed off just one liberal today my mission has been accomplished.)
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To: Pecos

I clicked on the article which is basically saying that it’s obesity differences. I still believe people in NYC live longer is because they are hysterical food Nazis who run to the doctor with every complaint known to man.


17 posted on 07/12/2013 8:37:01 AM PDT by miss marmelstein ( Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: miss marmelstein

So one can have more years of neurotic and obnoxious hypochondria in New York, or fewer years of laid-back and fried goodies in Mississippi.

I’ll settle for something in between: Mississippi has too many bugs.


18 posted on 07/12/2013 8:41:00 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("The human project is all about babies! Culture is all about babies!" ~ Cdl. Dolan)
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To: rarestia

It just might have something to do with where people do a lot of hard physical labor.


19 posted on 07/12/2013 8:46:26 AM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Tax-chick

Yes, that’s basically right. Or, to put it another way, one area of the country just makes life SEEM longer.


20 posted on 07/12/2013 8:52:28 AM PDT by miss marmelstein ( Richard Lives Yet!)
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