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ShiroKuro

I found the C, the 6, and the N, but I can’t find a link to the article.

Am I doomed?

pique

This is a great reference for gratitude. I just turned 69. I've been in despair a lot over the past three weeks. Just last night I started thinking, I need to list everything I'm grateful for. Running water. Central heating. A roof over my head. Enough to eat. Dogs! Horses! Beautiful views out the windows. A good marriage. A peaceful existence (so far). Friends. The luxury of time in my day to day life. Something tells me all of the above puts me into a very tiny percentage of the world population, much smaller than the noted statistic.

CHAS

@Steve-Miller

Sorry

Steve Miller

@CHAS

No worries - I found it!!

CHAS

@Steve-Miller Doesn't mean you are not doomed.

RichL

Poor Australia--reduced to a rounding error, lol

Mik

Who are you people, anyway? Why am I here?

wtg

@CHAS said in The Test:

THIS TEST IT WILL MAKE YOUR DAY.

Are you over 65?

Read this. Interesting insight to life.

POTM!!!

Bernard

Hm. Interesting 'statistics' but I was dubious about "Amongst 100 persons in the world, only eight live or exceed the age of 65!"

Me thinks this is a bit of numerical trickery. Population numbers are not static. Just because 8 people out of 100 are over 75 at any given time, doesn't mean only 8 out of 100 will reach that age and beyond. The percent of the population living into their 70s was 43% (according to an Atlantic article in 2012, which a quick and dirty google uncovered).

Anyway, it was a fun exercise and I found all the letters.

Axtremus

@RichL said in The Test:

Poor Australia--reduced to a rounding error, lol

In this article as populous as the Arctic and Antarctica.

WTF-Beta

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