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You're kidding, right? The FB engineers are probably mostly under 30 - you're assuming they'll die before they're 80?

Added in edit: Well, I guess from the downvote(s) that people do assume the FB engineers will die before they're 80.

Added in further edit: It's been suggested that my comment lowered the tone. If that's the case then I apologize, it wasn't intended to. It's been further pointed out that from 27 years of age onwards, the male life expectancy in the USA is indeed 50 years or less. So I was wrong anyway. I've learned something, for which I am not sorry. I was wrong, for which I am not sorry, because it afforded me the opportunity to learn. I may have lowered the tone, for which I am sorry.



If you are a 27 year old male in the U.S., your life expectancy is just under 50 years.

http://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html


Erm, sorry chap that's a period life table, not an expectancy table. It's remaining years, not total. If you scroll down eventually years remaining < age. Unless you count reincarnation no 80 year old is dying before their first birthday.


Assuming you mean the expected remaining life, then yes. And you must mean that, because the other "obvious" meaning makes no sense.


I think you have to sum the age and expectancy. Otherwise that table makes no sense.


Death probability is the lowest for 10 years old kids: 0.01% in that year.


I suspect FB engineers are going to live longer than average for US population, too, since they have higher income, education, etc.




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