Keys to long life? Not what you might expect
After you read this (or, well, skim through it), a few random thoughts:
1. Did you spot the spelling error?
2. Isn’t it sad - to be part of a fascinating research that you probably won’t know the results of, because it’s a research about your own death, and that’ll make others live longer but not you because you were one of the test subjects?
3. I think none of their conclusions about gender still stand, because so much has changed in the past few decades. Maybe married men lived longer because they had someone who cooked their food, cleaned their house and did all the dirty work in raising their children, while today this is no longer true? (not to that extent)
4. Why only “bright” kids? Unless that’s just a figure of speech..
5. Did they really have that many war veterans with different types of trauma so that every group can be studied separately?

Keys to long life? Not what you might expect

After you read this (or, well, skim through it), a few random thoughts:

1. Did you spot the spelling error?

2. Isn’t it sad - to be part of a fascinating research that you probably won’t know the results of, because it’s a research about your own death, and that’ll make others live longer but not you because you were one of the test subjects?

3. I think none of their conclusions about gender still stand, because so much has changed in the past few decades. Maybe married men lived longer because they had someone who cooked their food, cleaned their house and did all the dirty work in raising their children, while today this is no longer true? (not to that extent)

4. Why only “bright” kids? Unless that’s just a figure of speech..

5. Did they really have that many war veterans with different types of trauma so that every group can be studied separately?

posted : Monday, May 16th, 2011

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