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Will you die? What you expect changes with age


September 07, 2011

A majority of IEET readers age 35 or older who answered our recently concluded poll say they expect to die within a normal human lifespan. In contrast, a plurality of readers under age 35 believe that radical life extension will enable them to stay alive in their current bodies “for centuries at least.”


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Posted by theantifeminist.com  on  09/11  at  05:11 PM

This is pretty meaningless isn’t it?

The under 35’s will include teenagers and the over 35’s will include pensioners.

And what exactly do the bar charts show?  The number of participants who voted in a particular way?  It can’t be the percentage - unless the two sets of charts are inconsistant.





Posted by Mike Treder  on  09/11  at  05:14 PM

The bar charts show the number of people who selected each answer. We had a total of about 300 responses on this poll.





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