Spain will soon overtake Japan in life expectancy rankings

Re:Spain will soon overtake Japan in life expectancy rankings by crooked-v on Saturday December 29, 2018 @10:30PM (#18787197)

> Inborn in the sense that IQ is highly predictive of lifespan, because IQ highly correlates with overall physiological health.

Correlation is not causation, and many other factors correlate to both lifespan and IQ, neither of which are entirely a result of genetics.

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Re:Spain will soon overtake Japan in life expectancy rankings by busboybus on Saturday December 29, 2018 @10:35PM (#18787217)

I didn't say otherwise?! Defensive much? IQ is the single best predictor of lifespan. I think this is because ability to perform well on an IQ test means cellular metabolism is operating well in the organism.

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Re:Spain will soon overtake Japan in life expectancy rankings by SamReidHughes on Saturday December 29, 2018 @11:03PM (#18787301)

Part of the correlation would be caused by unhealthy smart people and healthy not-so-smart people being able to attract one another.

Another would be noncellular things like quality of sleep.

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Re:Spain will soon overtake Japan in life expectancy rankings by dragonwriter on Sunday December 30, 2018 @12:59AM (#18787704)

> IQ is the single best predictor of lifespan

[Citation needed]

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