Great discussion of the cohort studies in the UK, and what results are coming out from the late 40s, 80s, and Millennial cohorts.
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If you haven't seen the Up Series, it is a documentary series about 14 children that were selected from different social classes in the UK. Each episode is seven years apart. It has had eight episodes.
56 Up was the first one I had seen. And it really does give you a sense of mortality and how quick life's years can go by, in a blur of routine.
The total running time of the entire documentary is 769 minutes.
There are 29.453.760 minutes in 56 years. There were 14 people, for a total of 412.352.640 minutes of lifetime.
That a speed up factor of 536.219. It seems like any biological system sped up 500k times it's normal rate is going to give a sense of mortality.
Thanks for your very sensible explanation - I'm going to have to borrow for next time a non-techie friend of mine says something about a film that covers a person's life (so I get an expected eye roll or worse).
Reminds me of a guy who shot 1 second every day for a year to make a video. He ended up on Ted's main stage and ended up making an app.
Data from these studies are publicly accessible. The CLOSER project is working on documenting all the data and questionnaires that are part of the eight major UK cohort studies:
Main: http://www.closer.ac.uk/
Data: http://www.closer.ac.uk/data-resources/access-data/
Edit: link more directly to data access page.
I agree but the title is quite misleading and has a clickbaity sound to it.
Ok, we changed the title. If someone suggests a better one, we can change it again.
Yes, I also think that "title is quite misleading". I expect something else.