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‘The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’ – Ig Nobel winner Saul Justin Newman (theconversation.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by cerement@slrpnk.net to c/collapse@slrpnk.net

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“Okinawa in Japan is one of these [blue] zones. There was a Japanese government review in 2010, which found that 82% of the people aged over 100 in Japan turned out to be dead. The secret to living to 110 was, don’t register your death.”

“Regions where people most often reach 100-110 years old are the ones where there’s the most pressure to commit pension fraud, and they also have the worst records.”

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[–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wow so if I'm not mistaken, the takeaway is that committing pension fraud significantly increases longevity!

[–] anzo@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

Causation doesn't produce correlation!

[–] TIN@feddit.uk 10 points 2 weeks ago

That was really interesting, thanks for posting

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

How did you find out about your award?

I picked up the phone after slogging through traffic and rain to a bloke from Cambridge in the UK. He told me about this prize and the first thing I thought of was the lady who collected snot off of whales and the levitating frog. I said, “absolutely I want to be in this club”.

I love this. Speaking as an early career scientist, I think I'd rather win an ig-Nobel prize than a real Nobel.