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Question #19·30 August 2026·revealed

If you could stay healthy and live to 200, would you?

100 people in 5 countries answered on 30 August 2026. 78% said Yes.

Yes78%
No22%
100
votes on this question
10,016
votes since launch
5
countries
5.0s
median gut time
81%
predicted the majority
17.9
avg split-guess miss, points

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By country

YesNo
🇺🇸 USA 38
7624
Everywhere else 31
7723

By age

YesNo
25 to 34 32
7228
35 to 44 28
93
Everywhere else 8
100

By profession

YesNo
Everywhere else 43
8416
Biggest gap: 35 to 44 put the winning answer at 92.9%, against 78% worldwide.
Most contrarian country: 🇺🇸 USA. Only 76.3% sided with the global majority.

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In a wisehumans poll of 100 voters across 5 countries (30 August 2026), 78% chose "Yes". Source: wisehumans.org/q/if-you-could-stay-healthy-and-live-to-200-would-you

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Method

Self-selected online poll, no accounts: one vote per browser per day, capped per network address to limit repeat voting. Country derived at the network edge; age and profession self-reported from fixed lists. Buckets under 25 votes fold into "Everywhere else"; buckets under 5 are never published. Not weighted, not representative of any population.

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