Do we really want to know?

Dorsetmike · 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/

Newportnobby · 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

Geoff · October 01, 2015, 04:09:57 PM

Yikes only 23 years left .

FeelixTC · October 01, 2015, 04:22:15 PM

Smoking; Cheaper than pension contributions.

Newportnobby · 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

FeelixTC · 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

Not when accompanied by a Guinness

Ditape · 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

Dorsetmike · 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.

MalcolmInN · 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:( )

austinbob · October 01, 2015, 06:52:51 PM

OMG - I'd better crack on with my layout then!!

GroupC · 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.

Bealman · October 02, 2015, 01:49:44 AM

Trainfish · 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.

PaulCheffus · 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

Bealman · 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.