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Post by readthenotes1 »

chomp wrote: post #3

I graphed the difference in years amongst men and women using good ol' fashioned awk and free graphing software: https://imgur.com/a/3b1KrD7 It looks like at around age 18 - 30ish, the numbers start catching up, with a sharper reduction in expectancy differences happening around age 35. From the PRB: "Men are three times as likely as women to die from injuries (unintentional injuries, suicide, or homicide), and progr…

"There is also evidence that men at all ages are less likely to seek medical care and less likely to comply with medical instructions than are women."

Especially on the 0-1 year old group. Toxic masculinity starts in utero.

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Post by torstenvl »

Great resource. I use this all the time for military clients near or past retirement eligibility, to estimate the lifetime financial penalty of discharging them before retirement, or of retiring them in a lower grade.

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Post by 21723 »

readthenotes1 wrote: post #11
chomp wrote: post #3

I graphed the difference in years amongst men and women using good ol' fashioned awk and free graphing software: https://imgur.com/a/3b1KrD7 It looks like at around age 18 - 30ish, the numbers start catching up, with a sharper reduction in expectancy differences happening around age 35. From the PRB: "Men are three times as likely as women to die from injuries (unintentional injuries, suicide, or homicide), and progr…

"There is also evidence that men at all ages are less likely to seek medical care and less likely to comply with medical instructions than are women." Especially on the 0-1 year old group. Toxic masculinity starts in utero.

Toxic masculinity starts in utero.

I was going to reply but then decided, no, nevermind.

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Post by chomp »

readthenotes1 wrote: post #11
chomp wrote: post #3

I graphed the difference in years amongst men and women using good ol' fashioned awk and free graphing software: https://imgur.com/a/3b1KrD7 It looks like at around age 18 - 30ish, the numbers start catching up, with a sharper reduction in expectancy differences happening around age 35. From the PRB: "Men are three times as likely as women to die from injuries (unintentional injuries, suicide, or homicide), and progr…

"There is also evidence that men at all ages are less likely to seek medical care and less likely to comply with medical instructions than are women." Especially on the 0-1 year old group. Toxic masculinity starts in utero.

Men's health is complicated. Yes, there's some "strength in silence" confounding issues in doctor training and patients, but if you pry back the social media buzzwords, you'll see that there's complex economic and societal forces that push men's health downward.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1121551/

Also, I think you are trolling, but I'll bite. The expectancy in the 0-1 age group takes into account all life events that will affect the child over time, including what I had quoted. If you look at the probabilities in early life for both sexes, they have similar death probabilities.

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Post by kristopolous »

21723 wrote: post #13
readthenotes1 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"There is also evidence that men at all ages are less likely to seek medical care and less likely to comply with medical instructions than are women." Especially on the 0-1 year old group. Toxic masculinity starts in utero.

Toxic masculinity starts in utero. I was going to reply but then decided, no, nevermind.

The internet can be extremely hostile to empirical evidence. I actually just expect to be brigaded whenever I reference things like The Lancet. People are aggressively anti-intellectual.

People don't logon to learn, they're here to be tribal and do social cues

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Post by yellowstuff »

21723 wrote: post #13
readthenotes1 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"There is also evidence that men at all ages are less likely to seek medical care and less likely to comply with medical instructions than are women." Especially on the 0-1 year old group. Toxic masculinity starts in utero.

Toxic masculinity starts in utero. I was going to reply but then decided, no, nevermind.

Most people will miss this reference and the rest will feel old. You owe us all apologies.

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Post by TheSoftwareGuy »

chomp wrote: post #14
readthenotes1 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"There is also evidence that men at all ages are less likely to seek medical care and less likely to comply with medical instructions than are women." Especially on the 0-1 year old group. Toxic masculinity starts in utero.

Men's health is complicated. Yes, there's some "strength in silence" confounding issues in doctor training and patients, but if you pry back the social media buzzwords, you'll see that there's complex economic and societal forces that push men's health downward. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1121551/ Also, I think you are trolling, but I'll bite. The expectancy in the 0-1 age group takes into account a…

> The expectancy in the 0-1 age group takes into account all life events that will affect the child over time

But this is not taken into account in the Death Probability column, is it? Because we also see in that column, consistently better outcomes for women, even for the very youngest age groups

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Post by anamax »

hardtke wrote: post #10

This data, unfortunately, is missing an important confounding variable besides male/female. In the US lifespan his highly correlated with income, and the trend is getting worse. "The gap in life expectancy between the richest 1% and poorest 1% of individuals was 14.6 years (95% CI, 14.4 to 14.8 years) for men and 10.1 years (95% CI, 9.9 to 10.3 years) for women. Second, inequality in life expectancy increased over ti…

From the article: "The differences in life expectancy were correlated with health behaviors and local area characteristics."

"Health behaviors (rates of current smoking, obesity [defined as body mass index {calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared} ≥30], and exercise during the past month)"

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Post by Retric »

TheSoftwareGuy wrote: post #17
chomp wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Men's health is complicated. Yes, there's some "strength in silence" confounding issues in doctor training and patients, but if you pry back the social media buzzwords, you'll see that there's complex economic and societal forces that push men's health downward. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1121551/ Also, I think you are trolling, but I'll bite. The expectancy in the 0-1 age group takes into account a…

> The expectancy in the 0-1 age group takes into account all life events that will affect the child over time But this is not taken into account in the Death Probability column, is it? Because we also see in that column, consistently better outcomes for women, even for the very youngest age groups

10 and 11 year old boys have very similar rates of death as 10 and 11 year old girls, and it swaps some years ex: 2013.

Click on 2006 for example and men have noticeably lower rates of death in that age range, but 14 year old boys where still twice as likely to die.

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Post by bombcar »

Spivakov wrote: post #6

The death probability has a turning point from decreasing to increasing around age 10 for both male and female. Wonder why this specific age.

I wonder if it's accidental behavior because of not knowing better (children crawling into water or streets etc) combined with accidental behavior because of being teenagers crossing over.
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