Life Expectancy Test
 
 

The basis for LIFE EXPECTANCY TEST are a few web-based tests that I came across. The idea is that it can determine life expectancy based on a series of questions that the user must answer. Such questions could be "I weigh _____ lbs.", or "I smoke _____ cigarettes per day." I wrote a computer program to randomly provide answers to these questions.

Viewers watch as these answers are typed out by invisible, fictional individuals, each providing a narrative of who this person might be. Each test ends with each user's "life expectancy", before restarting with different values.