Comments by "Volound" (@Volound) on "How Long Will You Live?" video.

  1. 0:05 - AVERAGE life expectancy. most people that made it past childhood made it well, WELL past 30. this was always true. 0:13 - actually, the 80 year life expectancy is for people that were born 80 years ago. people born in the past few decades will have an even higher life expectancy than the current life expectancy. this is why life expectancy continues to rise.
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  2. Veritasium your video opens with the statement that the average human life lasted 30 years. 9/10 people that hear that will falsely assume that means that people used to live to the age of 30 and then drop dead - this is not your fault, but it is still true and is a problem. coupled with the fact that the video is titled, "how long will you live?", that problem becomes even more pronounced, and it does start to become your "fault". my comment was an attempt to draw attention to this. the 80 year life expectancy is based on the current mortality rates, which babies born today are obviously not going to be subject to, because as i said, life expectancy is going to continue to increase. life expectancy for babies born today is clearly NOT, i repeat, NOT 80 years. if the video were not titled "how long will you live?", this would perhaps not need to be pointed out, but it definitely does, given that is the case.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#Calculation inverse cherry picking is what you are doing in order to accuse me of cherry picking. you are attributing the life expectancy of the entire population to a specific subset of the populace to whom it will not apply.
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  3. He Who Judges what about them? i think you need to re-read my comment because that irrelevant question makes absolutely no sense. 
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  4. Crystal Kimama it isnt about knowledge. it is about being mindful of the limitations of how our brains work. i would have thought that was already explained satisfactorily, but apparently not. thanks for putting an example to the point. 
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  5. Nathan Babcock in the link i provided in the comment above that leads directly to the formula. 
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  6. SangoProductions21 read the comment above, i address this. 
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  7. bendswny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G31GuUOegek
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  8. Crystal Kimama up until a few hours ago, you believed the contracted form for "you are" is a possessive pronoun. just stop. this is miserable. 
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  9. Sylorinnis nothing ironic about it. nobody here would bother to pretend i do not know how to write in full formal prose. if you want to pretend that and likewise pretend there is irony when i rightly point out someone is retarded, that would be even more ridiculous than the other person who does not know what "you're" means. knock yourself out. arrogance is an over-estimation of self-worth or ability. everything i have claimed about myself (nothing) is obviously demonstrably accurate. use words properly if you want them to have effect. 
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  10. each and every boneheaded response that this thread gets vindicates what i said, and is likely being left as a result of anger upon realising that what i said applies to them.
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  11. ***** epic : ^ )
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  12. ***** ignoratio elenchi. 
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  13. ***** you aspire towards postgrad education and you do not know what google is?
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