[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.

[Kay]

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

[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."

[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.

[onedoug]

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

[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.....

[mikeb704]

As President Reagan used to say:

"It’s true, hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?"

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

[WaterDragon]

Nothing here to indicate the income levels of each retirement age which might be enlightening

[shortstop]

If I follow the math on this one, logic says that if you work until you are 68, you will die at age 63.

[avg_freeper]

It might just be the engineer in me, overanalyzing this, but the curve looks a little hokey.

I believe it is just a sinusoidal equation superimposed upon a linear equation. And I have heard about this being presented before as a Rockwell study. (yea. I know Rockwell is Boeing now)

Of course, starting that lama ranch in Wyoming is sounding better.

[TXFireman]

ping

[taxcontrol]

While the data is so selective as to be worthless, it does raise an interesting question. I'm also aware that minorities (in particular black males) have a shorter lifespan (for as yet undetermined reasons). It would be interesting to see what the net effect of retirement at age factored by race, income level, and location.

One possible use of this would be to mount an arguement for private retirement accounts because the "system" is so biased against anyone reaching retirement age.

Another possible use would be to mount an effort to reduce the retirement age for minorities or others who are "disadvantaged"

This can easily be a double edged sword.

[staytrue]

so when are you going to do a Martha cartoon ?

I think one of bill, hill and martha having tea together with the caption being "I sell pardons, I trade cattle futures, I do insider trading" would be great.

[tracer]

Gasp!! You have spilled the beans concerning how Social Security and pension plans manage to survive (sort of)!! Be very afraid -- and sleep with one eye open..... 8~)

[discostu]

More proof that there are lies damn lies and statistics. According to this my grandmother should have been dead 7 years ago, she just turned 73 and is not even contemplating retirement.

[B Knotts]

Tell it to Strom Thurmond.

[cgbg]

Lessee--two years lost for every year worked after 55. Now my grandpa worked until he was 84 (he owned the company so they couldn't retire him :-) ). So if he quit at 55 he would have lived to.... cgbg scrambles for calculator.... (2 x (84-55)) + 55 = 113???

Huh??