Thursday, March 28, 2019

Where you live in America determines when you’ll die

This list of life expectancy in the various US states corresponds fairly strongly with the list of red states vs. blue states. People in red states live on average about four years fewer than the people in blue states:

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/life-expectancy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states

I thought it might be due to conservatives being on average less intelligent (and not taking care of their diets or exercising proper gun safety, etc.), but according to this site there's not much of a correlation:

https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/we-compared-average-iq-score-in-all-50-states-results-are-eye-opening.html

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