AphroditeGoneAwry
failure to thrive
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Hehe. Good point.
Plus the exam presumes that your entered lifestyle choices (nutrition, levels of exercise, mental health) will remain static for the rest of your life.
Obviously, as conditions change, so too will your 'life expectancy'.
(That, and the calculator has a pretty wide-stroke; there's not much room for diagnostic individuality.)
Yes, if anything it seems to me that it should be biased toward those of younger age because as time goes on we know more about how to be to stay healthy. For example, I ate at MdDonalds regularly the first two decades of my life. But, I guess the app is going on that younger folks still have time to have more fatal accidents......Yet accidents are more a collective statistic, not an individual statistic. If you get killed at 25, you are no more likely to live to be 80, than 85. But, overall, I think it's pretty illuminating regarding lifestyle choices and how they affect longevity.
EDIT: However, it's not as biased as I thought. I retook it as a 20 y.o. and still got 94. Damn, I need to have more fun!