Draft a 'surprising sourced facts' social thread from the rulebook

[royashbrook]

One short Bluesky/Mastodon thread of 3-4 genuinely surprising, sourced rules (e.g. passport/Henley index value, what a credit score actually weighs), each citing real data, linking back to the site. Content already lives in rules.json.

Deliverable: drafted thread (3-4 posts) + which rule/source each pulls from.

[royashbrook]

Ready-to-paste thread (Bluesky / Mastodon / X)

Each post is under ~280 chars. All facts pulled from the live rulebook's cited sources.

1/ You're already being scored — by credit bureaus, insurers, lenders, hiring algorithms. We rebuilt those scores in the open, every rule cited to public data. A few things that genuinely surprised us 🧵

2/ Loneliness is priced like a cigarette. A meta-analysis (Holt-Lunstad et al.) found strong social ties are linked to ~50% higher odds of survival — an effect comparable to quitting smoking. The most underrated factor on the board.
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1000316

3/ Where you were born outweighs almost everything you do. In our model, country of residence (World Bank income tier) is the single heaviest input — heavier than your income, your credit, your savings. Luck of the map.
https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/906519

4/ Your passport is a score. The Henley index ranks them by visa-free access — the gap between the strongest and weakest passports is over 160 destinations. Same planet, wildly different doors, decided at birth.
https://www.henleyglobal.com/passport-index

5/ Having kids is associated with living longer. Tracking ~1.4M Swedes from age 60 (Modig et al., 2017), parents had lower old-age mortality — about a 2-year (men) / 1.5-year (women) gap at 60.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5484032/

6/ Every rule is cited or flagged as a guess, every weight is editable, and nothing you enter ever leaves your device. See the whole machine — and your own number — at lifescored.com