The Likelihood of Death

Posted by Miss Cellania in Mentalfloss on August 18, 2008 at 10:53 am



We all have a 100% chance of dying -eventually. Today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss tests how well you know the odds of dying in different situations for different people. I scored 100%, because, well, I read a lot. Link


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9 comments to "The Likelihood of Death"

  1. Public Relations
    August 18th, 2008 at 11:33 am

    YIKES! Great way to start of a Monday morning :-D

  2. jenjen
    August 18th, 2008 at 11:37 am

    Wow, of all the quizzes you’ve posted this is the first one I’ve got 100% correct. I guess I’m in touch with my inner cadaver.

  3. Neatoramawontsendmeapassword
    August 18th, 2008 at 11:41 am

    I got 100% correct, too.

    I hope that doesn’t mean I’m more likely to die.

  4. inkedgal
    August 18th, 2008 at 6:39 pm

    i missed 2.

  5. Easy
    August 18th, 2008 at 8:25 pm

    Well the one I got wrong was the Tennessee / Sth Dakota one. Which is not surprising considering I have no idea where either one is within the US, or anything else about them for that matter.

    Every now and then I get upset about the American slant behind the global phenomenon of the http://WWW.

  6. lauredhel
    August 18th, 2008 at 11:31 pm

    There’s an absolute clanger of a question in there, and it’s the one I got “wrong”:

    “How much longer will the average Asian woman live than the average African-American man?”

    Uh, yeah. I interpreted “Asian woman” to mean “Woman who lives in Asia”. The quiz writers meant it as “Woman of Asian descent who lives in America”.

  7. Neatoramawontsendmeapassword
    August 19th, 2008 at 6:35 pm

    I interpreted “Asian woman” as “a woman who lives in Asia”… and I got it right. For that question, I was thinking of Okinawans…

    And I’m not American, and I still got 100%. While the quiz was somewhat biased towards Americans, it doesn’t mean the rest of us can’t know some trivia.

  8. lauredhel
    August 19th, 2008 at 9:39 pm

    Okinawans? I was thinking of India and China, which will of course dramatically dominate any “average” figure.

  9. Ko
    August 19th, 2008 at 10:35 pm

    Weak.


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