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Heart v mind on BBC iPlayer might help answer that! http://www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/iplayer/episode/b01kpvj1
That 50% of Finnish men and 70% of Finnish women aren’t going to die?
What a good point, Bryan. No start-to-finish if you’re Finnish. Stats, eh?
Don’t get married?
My brain is beginning to hurt.
What it tells us is how easy it is to manipulate the public’s impressions of the truth by sleight of handfuls of stats. What does ‘more likely to die’ actually mean? More than what? Than others whose spouses live on, presumably, though we’re not told that in this soundbite. But how did they work out the likelihood of death, whatever that means? And do these stats apply equally regardless of age? I doubt it, but again we’re not told and have to assume it’s some sort of average of the men in the study (how many men? One? Fifty?); so… Read more »
By the way, there’s nothing sexist about the above, I chose the men’s results for convenience; for the rest of the study, replace ‘he’ with ‘she’ and substitue ‘20%’ for ‘30%’.