Posted on 08/31/2017 11:45:12 AM PDT by Red Badger
Dutch researchers claimed Thursday to have discovered the maximum age "ceiling" for human lifespan, despite growing life expectancy because of better nutrition, living conditions and medical care.
Mining data from some 75,000 Dutch people whose exact ages were recorded at the time of death, statisticians at Tilburg and Rotterdam's Erasmus universities pinned the maximum ceiling for female lifespan at 115.7 years.
Men came in slightly lower at 114.1 years in the samples taken from the data which spans the last 30 years, said Professor John Einmahl, one of three scientists conducting the study.
"On average, people live longer, but the very oldest among us have not gotten older over the last thirty years," Einmahl told AFP.
"There is certainly some kind of a wall here. Of course the average life expectancy has increased," he said, pointing out the number of people turning 95 in The Netherlands had almost tripled.
"Nevertheless, the maximum ceiling itself hasn't changed," he said.
Lifespan is the term used to describe how long an individual lives, while life expectancy is the average duration of life that individuals in an age group can expect to have—a measure of societal wellbeing.
The Dutch findings come in the wake of those by US-based researchers who last year claimed a similar age ceiling, but who added that exceptionally long-lived individuals were not getting as old as before.
Einmahl and his researchers disputed the latter finding, saying their conclusions deduced by using a statistical brand called "Extreme Value Theory", showed almost no fluctuation in maximum lifespan.
Einmahl said however there were still some people who had bent the norm, like Frenchwomen Jeanne Calment who died at the ripe old age of 122 years and 164 days.
Calment remains the oldest verified woman to date.
Extreme Value Theory is a brand of statistics that measures data and answers questions at extreme ends of events such as lifespan or disasters.
Einmahl said his group's findings will be submitted for publication in a peer review magazine "within the next month or so."
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Moses died at 120.................
Did they also discover that human stupidity has none?
This “scientists finally figured this out? Hey...tens of thousands of people die each day (151,600). I hope no one paid this fool for this “research”.
What about Methuselah?
Before the flood...............
Before the flood...............
Humans became mortal before the first child was born.
Humans had 120 years from the time that their wickedness filled the earth angering God to judgement.
The idea that men can only live 120 years is taking the entire chapter out of context.
Might as well read it as getting married and having children upset God.
Methuselah finally went to see a doctor just before he died.
At 969 years of age, he was thinking of marrying his 19th wife, a very young, voluptuous woman. (She was a babe.)
The physician told him to avoid sex. So on their wedding night, they decided he would sleep downstairs and she would stay upstairs.
In the small hours, he finally couldn’t help himself any longer so got out of bed and started creeping up the stairs, in the dark, and bumped into his bride coming down the stairs.
She said, “What are you doing, husband?”
He replied, “I am coming up to die.
“What are you doing wife?” he asked.
She replied, “I was coming down to kill you.”
Then it started raining.
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