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â¢ Get a life. In one study of healthy men and women with an average starting age of 71, Butler found the highest survival rates in those who had something to get up for in the morning, whether it was a job or a golf date.
If five patients live two years and one patient lives twenty years, the average life span would be five years. This is called a bimodal distribution and really the average has little meaning to either group. Keep in mind when you are looking at these numbers, that they are a blend of at least two averages.