{"id":7345,"date":"2012-12-30T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=7345"},"modified":"2012-12-30T09:01:26","modified_gmt":"2012-12-30T14:01:26","slug":"the-life-expectancy-of-rock-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/the-life-expectancy-of-rock-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"The Life Expectancy Of Rock-Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/122812_1137_TheLifeExpe1.jpg\" width=\"639\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>John Timmer reported on a study done of the life expectancy of rock-stars:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In general, richer people have longer life expectancies than the general population; and rock-stars are quite rich.<\/li>\n<li>However the data shows that being a rock-star completely negates the benefits of being rich, and in fact, lowers your life expectancy when compared to the general population.<\/li>\n<li>European rock-stars have a longer life expectancy than American ones, but European rock-stars still have a lower average life-expectancy than the general European population for the first few decades of their life.<\/li>\n<li>However, after 35 years of fame, European rock-stars had the same life expectancy as average Europeans.<\/li>\n<li>In general difficult childhood circumstances led to a greater likelihood of rock-stars dying of substance abuse or other risky behaviour.<\/li>\n<li>This suggests that being a rock-star isn&#8217;t what leads famous musicians to engage in excessive drinking, drug abuse, or suicide. Rather it&#8217;s traumatic childhoods that causes it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the limitations of the study, other findings from it, and the pool or rock-stars that were used over <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2012\/12\/mega-death-rock-stardom-reduces-life-expectancy\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2012\/12\/mega-death-rock-stardom-reduces-life-expectancy\/\">ArsTechnica<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Timmer reported on a study done of the life expectancy of rock-stars: In general, richer people have longer life expectancies than the general population; and rock-stars are quite rich. However the data shows that being a rock-star completely negates the benefits of being rich, and in fact, lowers your life expectancy when compared to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/122812_1137_TheLifeExpe1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7345"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7539,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7345\/revisions\/7539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}