00:00what's happening it's shane here and
00:02today i'm going to be talking about
00:03whether or not a college degree makes
00:06people live longer lives so this was an
00:08article that was sent to me by one of my
00:11students in the college 101 course which
00:13you can find linked down in the
00:14description below um but basically uh it
00:17was an article by cnbc make it which is
00:19a fantastic website and they talked
00:21about how getting a college degree makes
00:24people live longer and apparently the
00:26gap is growing now before we begin make
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00:35post a new video but to put things in
00:37perspective let's look back on the life
00:40expectancy throughout history so first
00:42of all in paleolithic times which is the
00:45earliest of recorded history if you can
00:47call that recorded history the life
00:49expectancy was thought to be about 22 to
00:5233 years old so the average person would
00:54only live to 22 to 33. in the year 1900
00:58the world average life expectancy only
01:01rose to around 31 to 32 years old so as
01:05little as 120 years ago the average life
01:09expectancy was about 32 years old now in
01:13the modern world the average life
01:14expectancy all throughout the world is
01:1772 to 73 years old so it's more than
01:20doubled over the last 100 years so for
01:23all of human history until up to the
01:25last 100 years the average life
01:27expectancy was basically like one
01:30generation or maybe one and a half to
01:31two generations and now life expectancy
01:34in the united states for instance so a
01:36first world country is thought to be
01:38somewhere between 78 to 80 years old
01:41right so this is probably due to many
01:42different factors such as modern
01:46improving diet access to health care and
01:49not having to go out and do extremely
01:51dangerous things just to stay alive now
01:53according to this article basically the
01:56life expectancy of somebody 25 and on
01:59which is a little bit different than
02:00what i just talked about that was the
02:02life expectancy at birth but basically
02:04there is a difference between people who
02:06get a college education get a bachelor's
02:08and those who don't right so for those
02:10who get a bachelor's i'll have the graph
02:13they live to it looks like almost 47
02:16years after the age of 25. so about
02:2046.7 or so something like that and then
02:23with those who don't get a bachelor's no
02:25ba they only live to about
02:2744.5 or so somewhere around there so
02:30there's about a one and a half year
02:31difference between those who do get a
02:33bachelor's and those who don't another
02:35similar study found that there was about
02:36a three year difference in those who get
02:38a bachelor's versus those who don't get
02:40one now there's a few things to talk
02:42about here first of all you know you
02:44always have to address the whole idea of
02:46correlation versus causation it could be
02:48that people who are more likely to get
02:50bachelor's degrees are people who are
02:52just a little bit more conscientious and
02:55more likely to take care of themselves
02:57and there could be other confounding
03:00where basically there's a correlation
03:01but there's no actual causation but i
03:03think there are a few variables here
03:05where to me it is pretty convincing that
03:07it might not be correlation first of all
03:10people who have a college degree of
03:12course are going to on average make more
03:14money than those who don't and not only
03:16do they make more money but they're more
03:18likely to be employed so people who
03:20graduated with a bachelor's for instance
03:21are much less likely to be unemployed
03:24than those who either only had a high
03:26school education or didn't even graduate
03:28from high school and employment means
03:30that they would likely have access to
03:32medical benefits and even if they didn't
03:34have access to medical benefits they
03:36would still likely be making enough
03:37money to where they could cover their
03:39medical costs so that's obviously a huge
03:42hot button issue here in the united
03:43states the ridiculous cost of health
03:46care many people decide to just not go
03:49in and get things checked out just
03:51because of the fact that it costs so
03:52much and so therefore you know maybe
03:54somebody could go like 10 years with
03:57high blood pressure before they actually
03:59go in to get that blood pressure
04:00corrected very very common to see same
04:03thing with diabetes so i could
04:05definitely see that having a negative
04:06effect on patients health outcomes on
04:08top of that people who graduate without
04:10a college degree are more likely to go
04:12into jobs and careers that are not only
04:15more tough on the body but they can
04:17actually be more dangerous as well right
04:20so i'm a pharmacist and i've had many
04:22patients who work in the trades for
04:24instance and one thing that i see
04:26commonly is after a full career in the
04:28trades they have back problems and they
04:30have leg problems and many of them end
04:32up taking painkiller medications for
04:34those issues and then the third factor i
04:36think is very important to consider here
04:38is people who go to college likely make
04:40less money and people who make less
04:42money are more likely to take risks
04:45right so they're more likely to engage
04:47in risky behavior now this could range
04:49all the way from the good type of risky
04:51behavior which is maybe like starting a
04:53business or something along those lines
04:55to bad types of risky behavior like
04:58you know selling stuff that they
04:59probably shouldn't sell because it's
05:00against the law and then of course risky
05:02behavior can lead to accidents which can
05:04shorten people's lifespan so yeah very
05:06interesting article a lot to think about
05:07there a lot of it could be correlation
05:09causation i think that some of it is
05:12causation though but i think that
05:13instead of having everyone go through
05:15the ridiculously expensive uh process of
05:18college in order to get people educated
05:20so that they can live longer i think a
05:22better alternative to that is to either
05:24reduce the cost of college or come up
05:27with alternatives to college that are
05:29just as good so anyways check out my
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