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When will you die? UK's interactive test to find predicted age of death

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Good grief, it claimed I'd live to age 90. That's got to be wrong. How many not-too-distant members on either side of my family have made it into their upper 80s? Couple of ghost hands maybe raised, and that required an intervening number of surgeries and hospital treatments to accomplish.

The calculator itself: https://mylongevity.org/calculator

article: https://www.mirror.co.uk/science/how-lon...e-22616581

EXCERPTS: The idea of a calculator that can predict when you’re going to die may sound like an idea from a science fiction blockbuster. But scientists from the University of East Anglia have made such a calculator a reality, as part of a new study.

The calculator, dubbed Mylongevity, shows the effect of various medical and lifestyle factors on life expectancy.

[...] To use the calculator, simply input your data, including your name, age, gender, any underlying health conditions, and whether or not you smoke. The calculator will then reveal how much longer you’ll likely to live, based on data from the Office for National Statistics... (MORE - details)
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A thing is that it doesn't ask whether you eat five fruits a day or (say) one a year. Smoking is bad but drinking is irrelevant though I suspect they may (incorrectly) assume some sort of common sense is being applied. Blood pressure and fatness seem to be the main things though I didn't fully explore fat me and thin me variants. With a diet of whiskey and Marmite on toast I am predicted to live to 86 if I give up smoking and 81 if I don't so 81 it is.
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