Comments on: How Long People Live in America

By: Understanding Gender Differences in Life Expectancy » Sociological Images

Understanding Gender Differences in Life Expectancy » Sociological Images — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:19:59 +0000

[...] Data presented a number of figures revealing data about life expectancy (via).Â It is well known that women live longer than men in Western countries (to age 81 versus [...]

By: floormaster squeeze

floormaster squeeze — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:44:36 +0000

For the record, your sub-heading about “modern medicine” is not relevant to what you show in the charts.

And as someone who has studied this data, the least I will say is that “modern medicine” plays a fairly small role in mortality changes. A whole host of things, which people debate about, correlate with mortality changes; like public health, education, income, environment, stress, “lifestyle” and the many interactions of all those play a role. There have been a few “modern medicine” examples that have extended life but on this aggregated scale the other things have a much bigger impact.

By: Don’t Trust Science?

Don’t Trust Science? — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:19:34 +0000

[...] crunchers in other labs have revealed that if you live in Vermont you will live longer than if you live in New [...]

By: Nathan

Nathan — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:50:43 +0000

that’s the only data made available

By: michael

michael — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:31:30 +0000

haha white and black only?

By: How long do we live in America? « HyperCurio.us (beta)

How long do we live in America? « HyperCurio.us (beta) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:23:42 +0000

[...] As usual, amazing work from Flowing Data. [...]

By: anon.

anon. — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:38:44 +0000

Couple of comments on the graphics.

1. Why not use a continuous color scale, rather than bucketed, for the map? Or at least more buckets? I think the current map suppresses a lot of interesting data and creates spurious large distinctions between some states.

2. The “probability of death” graph is interesting, but I’d like to see a version that brought out the detail in the under 75 part of the x-axis. Maybe a log or log odds sort of thing…

By: Biker Tom

Biker Tom — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 12:23:15 +0000

Smoking does appear more prevalent in the south.. There are also of course positive correlations between poverty, weight, & the lack of health insurance and early death (looping bck to earlier posts). I will see if I can come up with some data on these things (and geographical data) and if I can I will send it to Nathan.

PS Nice work on the education posters, Nathan !

By: How Long People Live in America « clubantietam.com

How Long People Live in America « clubantietam.com — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:14:23 +0000

[...] this graphic, we take a look at some data on how long you’re expected to [...]

By: Geoff

Geoff — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:38:24 +0000

Thanks John S. I had been looking for that kind of data for some time. It appears that in 1850, white 60 yr old males would live an average of 16 more years. In 2004, white 60 yr old males would live an average of 21 more years. In +/- 150 years, we’ve extended the life expectancy of the average newborn from 38 to 75. And for those that are 60 years old now, they can expect to live an addtl 5 yrs than they would have if they were living back in 1850.