Study Finds People Can Surprisingly Estimate Their Lifespan, But Many Get One Thing Wrong
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A 1996 Japanese study looked at how well people in their 60s can guess. The post It turns out how well people can estimate how long they will live first appeared on 24.hu.
A study of elderly Japanese people shows that people often underestimate their lifespan. The post Japanese researchers: Most people can guess the time of their death almost accurately appeared first on Digiato.
Study Finds People Can Surprisingly Estimate Their Lifespan, But Many Get One Thing Wrong
A new study from Japan suggests that people may have a better sense of their own longevity than expected. Researchers found a clear link between how long older adults believed they would live and how long they actually survived. But there was an important twist: many participants underestimated their own longevity. About 59% lived beyond […]
When asked, "How long do you think you will live?", some people predict a longer lifespan, such as "I think I will live to be around 90," while others estimate their death to be earlier, such as "I think I will die around 70." A research team led by Associate Professor Shohei Okamoto of the University of Tsukuba's Faculty of Systems and Information Engineering has published a paper on medRxiv, a preprint server for medical papers, investigating …
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