Re: [math-fun] how much life lost by being off the optimum weight curve?

Warren: It would be interesting to try this "Eureqa" algorithm on your data. You can download & try it out for free. http://www.nutonian.com/products/eureqa/ At 11:29 AM 1/26/2015, Warren D Smith wrote:

I do not have that data, but presumably the life insurance companies that produced the "optimum weight range" data did. I just parasited off MetLife.

Here are some other life insurance co tables somebody collected, I have no idea what if any science is behind them... but i we optimistically assume they knew what they were doing, then the extra premiums you had to pay from being off curve, translate into reduced lifespan in the obvious way...:

http://www.victorson.com/pdf/LTC/HeightandWeightChart[1].pdf