The Likelihood of Death

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

   YIKES! Great way to start of a Monday morning

2. jenjen
   Aug 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
   Aug 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
   Aug 18th, 2008 at 6:39 pm

   i missed 2.

5. Easy
   Aug 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 WWW.

6. lauredhel
   Aug 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
   Aug 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
   Aug 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
   Aug 19th, 2008 at 10:35 pm

   Weak.

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