Showing posts with label matt damon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label matt damon. Show all posts

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Disney should be offended!

I thought Matt Damon was going to keep his mouth shut about political stuff. He should. For one, where does he get 1 in 3 chance of dying??? If you check the Social Security Administration's Actuarial Life Table, at 72 years of age his probability of dying is NOT 32%. Obviously, they are using life insurance tables which are more conservative because life insurance companies are in it to make money...Meep explains it well here:
So what is this "32% chance of survival" stuff? They're using life insurance tables. There's a problem with life insurance tables -- we build in conservatism in assuming you'll die earlier than expected, because that's where the companies will get hurt if you buy life insurance. The only underwriting variable I have is his age and sex, and a few details of his cancer history. I could try to make an adjustment off the Social Security tables, but they weren't set up for that.

So yet again, another Democratic talking point is proved to be misleading.

Back to Disney, I hope Disney never hires Matt Shamon for a part. To call this a horrible Disney movie to use Matt's own language is absurd.