50% of all people born in 1950 are now....

Aren't 100% dead or alive?

Snobby wrote:

google boy wrote:

Right here

Note quite. That table does include the odds of dying this year for someone aged 67 as well as how much longer you have to live, but nothing to help answer the ops question.

Google some more boy.

Look at all the columns. Particularly the one that starts at 100,000 lives at age 0 and decreases as age goes up. Well over half of 67 yr olds are alive now.

Oddball wrote:

Snobby wrote:

Note quite. That table does include the odds of dying this year for someone aged 67 as well as how much longer you have to live, but nothing to help answer the ops question.

Google some more boy.

Look at all the columns. Particularly the one that starts at 100,000 lives at age 0 and decreases as age goes up. Well over half of 67 yr olds are alive now.

Meant that well over half of those born in 1950 are alive now.

Oddball wrote:

Oddball wrote:

Look at all the columns. Particularly the one that starts at 100,000 lives at age 0 and decreases as age goes up. Well over half of 67 yr olds are alive now.

Meant that well over half of those born in 1950 are alive now.

So does that mean that the answer to the OP's bizarrely worded question is "no"? Still trying to figure out just what it is that he's trying to ask.

Manbearpig15 wrote:

.....dead or alive?

poorly defined question wrote:

So does that mean that the answer to the OP's bizarrely worded question is "no"? Still trying to figure out just what it is that he's trying to ask.

Who knows? Here are better statements:

Approximately 50% of all American men born in 1937 are now alive.

Approximately 50% of all American women born in 1933 are now alive.

fisky wrote:

As a amateur futurist, I'm optimistic on living to 100 or well beyond in good health. Life expectancy at age 65 is already a LOT higher than actuarial tables show because these tables suffer from two shortcomings: They are average of all demographics and they are a lagging indicator.

If you are Caucasian, male, non-smoker, not overweight, have a white collar job, college degree or higher, and average or above wage earner, and no major conditions at age 65, your life expectancy at age 65 is 94. Females can expect to live 2-4 years longer.

Further, this is a lagging indicator, meaning it is based on looking at how life expectancy has changed in the past. Future medical advances will continue to increase life expectancy at age 65. In fact, senior life expectancy is increasing about 1.5 years/decade for the past 30 years.

How old are you? Just curious.

poorly defined question wrote:

Oddball wrote:

Meant that well over half of those born in 1950 are alive now.

So does that mean that the answer to the OP's bizarrely worded question is "no"? Still trying to figure out just what it is that he's trying to ask.

Well there you go. You can stop googling boy! The correct choice is alive.

stat this wrote:

Aren't 100% dead or alive?

No, some are Canadian.

Manbearpig15 wrote:

.....dead or alive?

Sorry about the wording. The intelligent ones on here I knew what I meant.

But, I was quite surprised to see that way over 50% of people born in 1950 are still alive today.

fisky wrote:

As a amateur futurist, I'm optimistic on living to 100 or well beyond in good health. Life expectancy at age 65 is already a LOT higher than actuarial tables show because these tables suffer from two shortcomings: They are average of all demographics and they are a lagging indicator.

If you are Caucasian, male, non-smoker, not overweight, have a white collar job, college degree or higher, and average or above wage earner, and no major conditions at age 65, your life expectancy at age 65 is 94. Females can expect to live 2-4 years longer.

Further, this is a lagging indicator, meaning it is based on looking at how life expectancy has changed in the past. Future medical advances will continue to increase life expectancy at age 65. In fact, senior life expectancy is increasing about 1.5 years/decade for the past 30 years.

Still does not mean you will make it. Visit a hospital -arrogance and averages don't help the individual who luck with health runs out.

If 50% are alive than 50% are dead.

Snobby wrote:

poorly defined question wrote:

So does that mean that the answer to the OP's bizarrely worded question is "no"? Still trying to figure out just what it is that he's trying to ask.

Well there you go. You can stop googling boy! The correct choice is alive.

No. The data show that "50% of all people born in 1950 are now alive" is not a true statement.