Genre and Life Expectancy.

octatonic

Lot of clumsy metalheads out there.

Bogwhoppit

According to that chart, I'm a gospel folk artist who cheated death..

hobbio

My take away from that chart is that folk music gives you cancer. Jazz too.

I suppose the reason the cancer rate amongst rappers is so low is that they all get murdered before Big C gets a look in.

starwarsnosebleed

Im telling my insurers i dont listen to any music whatsoever.

octatonic

My Hip-hop-Metal band will finish its tour with spree killing and then we'll top ourselves.

scrumhalf

How many hip-hop/rap artists are anywhere near 75?

stickyfiddle

octatonic said:

My Hip-hop-Metal band will finish its tour with spree killing and then we'll top ourselves.

At least you won't have to play folk music

Moss

They really shouldn't have joined the lines as the data isn't continuous

It's basically impossible to draw any kind of conclusion from that graph

Moss

Also, I won't believe that 51% of rappers are killed by homicide - the genre isn't old enough to take into account many natural causes

octatonic

I wonder what Dubstep artists die of?
Shame most probably.

stickyfiddle

Moss said:

They really shouldn't have joined the lines as the data isn't continuous

It's basically impossible to draw any kind of conclusion from that graph

AND the tick marks aren't lined up with the datapoints.

[/excel nerd]

scrumhalf

How do we interpret this for session guitarists?

english_bob

hobbio said:

My take away from that chart is that folk music gives you cancer. Jazz too.

I suppose the reason the cancer rate amongst rappers is so low is that they all get murdered before Big C gets a look in.

I suspect it's being old that gives you cancer- that's true across the board. Since folk and jazz musicians apparently live longer, they're more likely to develop cancer.

Strangefan

Whay a load of shite, it's all about whether the genre was popular and age related ! Nothing to do with anything else. 

Philly_Q

scrumhalf said:

How do we interpret this for session guitarists?

They probably spend most of their time playing pop, maybe a bit of country or lite rock.... which, looking at the charts above, makes your life expectancy and likely cause of death as middle-of-the-road as the music.

slacker

Bogwhoppit said:

According to that chart, I'm a gospel folk artist who cheated death..

Isnt that the point of Gospel?

ICBM

It's clearly bogus, because the graph of US male and female life expectancy relates to time along the bottom axis, so the genres and musician lines have just been pasted on… but it's quite funny.

Reminded me of Goldie Lookin' Chain's "Guns don't kill people - rappers do" though .

ToneControl

we can see a causal relationship - heart problems cause the blues


ahh it's all  bogus or defective

viz

So folk musicians only actually play for like 4 years before they die, assuming they start at around 55?

HAL9000

My, someone had too much time on their hands.

ArchtopDave

Someone posted this Data a long time ago - could have been back in MR Days.