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Title: Do we really want to know?
Post by: Dorsetmike on October 01, 2015, 01:01:47 PM
Found this page, sort of good news/bad news depending on the result.

http://visual.ons.gov.uk/how-long-will-my-pension-need-to-last/ (http://visual.ons.gov.uk/how-long-will-my-pension-need-to-last/)
Title: Re: Do we really want to know?
Post by: Newportnobby on October 01, 2015, 03:59:20 PM
Oh gawd - I still have 24 years on this misbegotten earth.
Who knows - I might just get one of the layouts finished :hmmm:
Title: Re: Do we really want to know?
Post by: Geoff on October 01, 2015, 04:09:57 PM
Yikes only 23 years left .  :doh:
Title: Re: Do we really want to know?
Post by: FeelixTC on October 01, 2015, 04:22:15 PM
Smoking; Cheaper than pension contributions.
Title: Re: Do we really want to know?
Post by: Newportnobby on October 01, 2015, 04:25:42 PM
Quote from: FeelixTC on October 01, 2015, 04:22:15 PM
Smoking; Cheaper than pension contributions.

and less emissions than a VW diesel :-X
Title: Re: Do we really want to know?
Post by: FeelixTC on October 01, 2015, 04:26:51 PM
Quote from: newportnobby on October 01, 2015, 04:25:42 PM
Quote from: FeelixTC on October 01, 2015, 04:22:15 PM
Smoking; Cheaper than pension contributions.

and less emissions than a VW diesel :-X

Not when accompanied by a Guinness
Title: Re: Do we really want to know?
Post by: Ditape on October 01, 2015, 06:18:18 PM
Another 1/4 of a century to go, I wonder how many layouts I will build in that time :NGaugersRule:
Title: Re: Do we really want to know?
Post by: Dorsetmike on October 01, 2015, 06:41:17 PM
Sounds OK for some of you lot out there, it only gives me 9 which would make it 90, but with an outside chance of 7% for making the ton. My mother made it to 97, her younger brother to 93, oldest brother only managed 88, but then he did get gassed in WW1.
Title: Re: Do we really want to know?
Post by: MalcolmInN on October 01, 2015, 06:51:26 PM
Quote from: Dorsetmike on October 01, 2015, 06:41:17 PM
Sounds OK for some of you lot out there, it only gives me 9
It does, for some. :)
I dont dare put my details into those sorts of sites, it might return minus10 !
(I'm already on minus6 coming up 7:( )
Title: Re: Do we really want to know?
Post by: austinbob on October 01, 2015, 06:52:51 PM
OMG - I'd better crack on with my layout then!! :)
Title: Re: Do we really want to know?
Post by: GroupC on October 01, 2015, 10:52:43 PM
It is of course way overly simplistic just using 2 variables.

But for a laugh I gave it a go anyway and am very perturbed to discover that my chances of reaching 115 are so insignificantly small as to be zero. On the up-side, I'm almost guaranteed to reach 1.15 tomorrow (which is just over 2 hours away as I write this).

But will the extra worry I just put into that little exercise, and its results, shorten my life?

I'll let you know if I don't make it past 1.15 tomorrow morning. Somehow.
Title: Re: Do we really want to know?
Post by: Bealman on October 02, 2015, 01:49:44 AM
 :laughabovepost: :laughabovepost: :laughabovepost:
Title: Re: Do we really want to know?
Post by: Trainfish on October 02, 2015, 02:11:54 AM
It says I'll reach 86 and I can collect my pension at 88. How does that work then?!?

Edit: Erm, forget that, I read the graph wrong. It says I have an 88% chance of collecting my pension. Phew.
Title: Re: Do we really want to know?
Post by: PaulCheffus on October 02, 2015, 09:30:27 AM
Hi

The one big problem with that is that it doesn't take into account long term illness such as Diabetes for example.

Cheers

Paul
Title: Re: Do we really want to know?
Post by: Bealman on October 02, 2015, 09:44:38 AM
With the only variables being age and sex, it doesn't take anything into account. But it's still funny.  :beers:
Title: Re: Do we really want to know?
Post by: jonclox on October 02, 2015, 11:00:39 AM
 :o 87 OMG that's far to long. must consult my GP and see if that can be shortened
Title: Re: Do we really want to know?
Post by: GrahamB on October 02, 2015, 11:17:48 AM
I think I'll just stay married.

Q. Why do husbands die before their wives?
A. Because they want to.
Title: Re: Do we really want to know?
Post by: GroupC on October 02, 2015, 04:15:34 PM
Quote from: Bealman on October 02, 2015, 09:44:38 AM
With the only variables being age and sex, it doesn't take anything into account. But it's still funny.  :beers:

It's not funny if you're a 105 year old male. It only gives you another year to go. And that graph goes almost Beachy Head-esque.
Title: Re: Do we really want to know?
Post by: Bealman on October 02, 2015, 08:58:43 PM
Yeah, it sorta gives up after that.  :doh:
Title: Re: Do we really want to know?
Post by: Trainfish on October 04, 2015, 12:09:59 PM
Try telling it you're 125 years old and either male or female. You'll be told you have a 1 in 4 chance of reaching infinity! And also a 1 in 10 chance of the same.
Title: Re: Do we really want to know?
Post by: Bealman on October 04, 2015, 12:16:10 PM
Oh to live to infinity.

Sorta like standing between 2 mirrors.

Except no one has ever satisfactorily explained to me why your image curves off into the distance.   :worried: ;)