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World Cancer Day was last week, and I’m here with some good news: people are living longer with cancer.THE ACTUARIAL PERSPECTIVE
When I taught actuarial science students at UConn, and talked to them about actuarial topics (I taught two separate classes: one on computing (Excel, Access, by meep
I last updated this in 2019. So why not do a new calculation, now that we’ve got a slate of old, white men (and an old, white woman, and some younger folks who we don’t really care about survivability for). Prior posts of similar type: by meep
Well, are you in Hubei province right now? You should look at this map, and think about the numbers. I will link far more stories at the end of the post, but I want to make a specific point to discuss up here. Yes, it sounds like this coronavirus is pretty... by meep
Hey, hey, hey now. Hear me out. It’s traditional! What happens when we’re too old to be ‘useful’ “I customarily killed old women. They all died, there by the big river. I didn’t used to wait until they were completely dead to bury them. The women were afraid of me.” No wonder....Presidential Mortality: 2020 Update -- These Candidates are Old
Pandemic: How Worried Should You Be About Coronavirus?
Retirement Crisis Solution: Kill the Elderly
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After someone pointed out that I did a graph no-no, I fixed up graphs from this morning's post. I explained what I did and why here.by meep
They do have life expectancies lower than teachers, though.
In this piece, a retired correctional officer argues that Illinois safety officers should be allowed to retire at age 50.
Here is part of the argument:
Research has shown that the life expectancy of individuals working in these fields are lower than the...
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Giving some of the top causes of deaths and looking at the numbers.by meep
I started this post back in November, when the following story came out: USC student found dead off campus is university’s 9th death this semester, report says
The University of Southern California is investigating the death of its ninth student in three months, a phenomenon that’s sending alarm...
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The following story popped up in my twitter feed:
Ex-Chicago police commander spared prison for collecting dead mom’s Social Security checks for years
Before I start quoting the story, let me fix that headline:
Ex-Chicago police commander spared prison for collecting dead mom’s Social Security checks for over 23 years
That’s better. I...
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Howdy to any new readers coming via Storyline. For those who don’t know me, I’m meep, aka Mary Pat Campbell, and I’m a life actuary.
What’s an actuary you ask? We’re professionals who specialize in quantifying aspects of all sorts of risks. What’s a life actuary? That means...
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