Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
A new study has called into question the long-held belief that women outlive men.Although men have a lower life expectancy than women, men have a “substantial chance of outliving females”, according to academics from Denmark.Life expectancies – which summarise the average length of life – are a “simplistic measure” which are often interpreted as meaning that “men do not live as long as women”, researchers said.They argue that simply looking at life expectancy means that people are not accounting for variation around the averages, and a “sizeable portion of males might live longer than a sizeable portion of females, even if the life expectancy shows a female advantage”.A better measure could be to examine the lifespan of men and women across different countries, they said.Their study, published in the journal BMJ Open, examined data on the lifespan of men and women across 199 countries for almost 200 years.The analysis concluded that men have a high probability of outliving women — especially those who are married and have a degree.“Males who are married or have a university degree tend to outlive females who are unmarried or do not have a high school diploma,” the authors said.They found that the probability of a man outliving a woman is between 25% and 50%.They pointed out that large differences in life expectancy mask substantial overlap in lifespan between the sexes.“A blind interpretation of life expectancy differences can sometimes lead to a distorted perception of the actual inequalities [in lifespan],” the authors wrote.They concluded: “Although male life expectancy is generally lower than female life expectancy, and male death rates are usually higher at all ages, males have a substantial chance of outliving
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