Actually, it is less than 50% chance of living.....but I did not want to scare you too much. Look at what I said, it is not a man made hazard like a bus or a plane. It is nature.
Sorry bobcathy, but you'd make a lousy actuary. The odds are obviously NOT 50/50 that a randomly selected person will live another 24 hours. That's absurd.
although it's possible, i highly doubt there's less than a 50% chance i will live tomorrow. if there is a 50% chance of living each day, then there is only a .1% chance i will live for 10 more days. lol
Actuaries deal with probability. The probability of living is pretty good. On average people live to 65. The chance remains at 50/50.
if, as you say, the chance of living a day is 50%, therefore, the chance of living for 10 days is .1%; how is the average life expectancy 65 years??! you mentioned 1 or 0 earlier. if i buy a lottery ticket, it can be a winner or a loser. would you say there is a 50% chance i win? no.
in a few min i will edit this post and tell you, on average, what the % chance of dying each day is (has been), with an average life expectancy of 65 years. it will be way less than 50%.
lol actually...someone else can do it. i was just gonna do it in excel real quick, but i hit the column limit.
Well I'm going to have to disagree because you are assuming that live/die is like a coin flip. There is a 50/50 chance of getting heads or tails when you flip a quarter but each day you wake up, there is a very small chance that you will die. That's like saying there is a 50/50 chance that our house will catch fire because we assume that there are only two states a house can exist in -- not on fire and on fire. You could even say there is a 50/50 chance that there is a god. You know there isn't and I know there is. With those odds, I'd go with god -- wouldn't you?
http://www.livingto100.com/quiz.htm not that i want to be alive as an old, frail, wrinkly fart, my life expectancy is 97.2.