Tbh, there's probably some scientific validity to the bias towards female sex towards the extreme margins of age when trying to assess survivability.

It's commonly accepted that the protective effects of natural estrogen delay age-related heart disease by about 10 years in women (ie. Heart disease in women mostly begins after menopause and its risk level is roughly equivalent to a male ten years younger.)

The statistics in retirement homes and nursing homes are also ridiculously skewed towards women. At a certain age, occupancy by sex ratio often approaches 7-11:1.

There's also an age cutoff (?90), where women outnumber men something like 10:1 and the ones still living statistically almost all involved exhibit some degree of cognitive decline.

Tbh, there's probably some scientific validity to the bias towards female sex towards the extreme margins of age when trying to assess survivability.

It's commonly accepted that the protective effects of natural estrogen delay age-related heart disease by about 10 years in women (ie. Heart disease in women mostly begins after menopause and is risk level is roughly equivalent to a male ten years younger.)

The statistics in retirement homes and nursing homes are also ridiculously skewed towards women. At a certain age, occupancy by sex ratio often approaches 7-11:1.

There's also an age cutoff (?90), where women outnumber men something like 10:1 and the ones still living statistically almost all involved exhibit some degree of cognitive decline.