For every year worked beyond 55, two years of life span are lost! (Chart inside)

A FRiend ^ | 06.28.02 | Registered

[Registered]

A FReeper buddy sent this to me. Pretty interesting data to say the least. Glad I'm retiring in 5 years!

[Registered]

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[Fred Mertz]

I'm only 28, so this doesn't apply^:)

[RLK]

Jesus Christ! I'm already dead and nobody's told me.

[Billy_bob_bob]

No wonder they raised the retirement age to 70. What Social Security crisis? They'll just work us until we drop, then we get one or two checks before it's time to dump us in the old ash heap. Heck, by the time I'm 70 they'll have raised it to 75, by the time I'm 75 it'll be 80, by the time I'm 80 I'll be dead. Nothing like getting a good return on your investment.

Social Security - such a deal! How can anyone not love a socialist welfare program like Social Security? Just because they give away billions every year to people who never paid a dime into the system, so that the rest of us who actually pay into the system can work until we die! Boy, sure makes me feel good about working hard and paying taxes my whole life.

[Kay]

Bunk. I don't believe this data for a second. Quite the opposite.

[tamu]

I don't believe this data for a second

i'm with you kid, this study hardly controls for enough effects to reach the conclusion that they do!

[vikingchick]

Good rant. It's like in Catch 22~~every time they reached the number of missions they had to fly, they raised the number of missions they had to fly.

[Jagdgewehr]

The control group does not have retirees from other industries. All the retirees in this study are from Boeing Aerospace.
The conclusion should say "For every year worked beyond age 55, Boeing Aerospace retirees lose two years of life span."

[Marine Inspector]

I was thinking the same thing.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Might it be that the people who can retire early have more money (possibly from other sources than the job) and thus can afford a less stressful lifestyle and better medical care.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Oh, what are "reitrees" of Boeing Aerospace (see caption). The correlation is too smooth and too drastic. It looks like a hoax.

[SoDak]

I've always thought retirement was lethal. Take a look at the statistics. Retired people die at a much, much higher rate than non-retireds.

[Swordmaker]

I'm only 28, so this doesn't apply^:)

Quick! Retire now!

Look at that GRAPH... it is a linear regression... if you retire RIGHT NOW you will live to be 138 years old!!!!

[DB]

Yep, the data points are way to smooth.

[onedoug]

For some odd reason I'd always considered that working for its own sake mattered, too.

[Jagdgewehr]

Might it be that the people who can retire early have more money (possibly from other sources than the job) and thus can afford a less stressful lifestyle and better medical care.

No argument with your "thesis" statement. It is very likely that many retirees may live longer, healthier lives due to the conditions you outlined. I'm not sure that this particular study has the reliability necessary to support this conclusion.

[JLS]

Yes and then someone expanded Gauss to three dimensions and then four etc and voila we have multiple regression. One explannatory variable is ok sometimes. This time it is probably not.

Want to bet that income and wealth are negatively related to retirement age but positively related to life expectancy. I would bet it is true and that is what this graph is likely leaving out. Thus the real story is more likely something like rich people retire early, have more wealth, better medical services, have worked in less physically taxing jobs and thus live longer.

[Vidalia]

Hey, I'm only a vegetable, a lowly vegetable, but I know this...

This is absolute Crapola from a first grade mind. Any who have studied even the basics of stat know that an absolute 45 degree correlation (which this portrays), is pure fantasy on the part of the idiot who put this thing together.

This is exactly the type of ByullSheetStatistics that snake oil pollsters put together to further the likes of a Clinton or GoreWhore.

It takes more than a couple of weeks at a seminar for polling to learn the mathematical aspects of statistics and probabilities.

However, one FACTOR is always present these days for the party of Liars, that of the statistics being " SKEWED "...

Simply put, you cannot trust any silly simplistic poll put out by anyone anymore, if you do not know the minimum number of samples required for a T, Chi(square), or normal distribution.

Even if you do know the basics of random sampling, the difference between possibilities and probabilities is damn sure not known by the average semi-literate American citizen....

Example...." I, the math Vegetable, say that the Sun will rise tomorrow", (this one regardless of which horizon)...

Is this statement a (1)Fact, a (2)Prediction, a (3)Probability, a (4)Possibility, or just (5)a whimsy of Fantasy on the part of the author?

Are you, the "American People " going to yell "That's not fair!!", or are some, plenty, or all of you going to do the homework (if you do not already know the answer), and give a researched, scholastically sound answer?

Please respond, for I am going to plan my future growth on the answers.....

[SAJ]

Chortling!!! I got the same answer!

Every 20-something retire RIGHT NOW and live another 90 years. Don't worry, the OTHER people will pay for your existence!