The Dunedin Study Has Been Studying Aging for 45 Years
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Population of around 120,000 for people like me who found that less than informative.
0.04 Wales, in standard units.
However area is irrelevant since they chose everyone in the original city who was born during that period, the identity of the people they are studying hasn't changed
Remember when these guys were starting the software for this study, they were using cards.
Source: http://www.justintools.com/unit-conversion/area.php?k1=squar...
After you posted that, I just had to Google it. Crazy that someone has thought of it.
Nature through nuture: "The larger suggestion is that it is the combination of the right environment and genetic cocktail that causes mental illness — not nature versus nurture, but, as author Matt Ridley has written, nature via nurture."
Crime: "The more common antisocial behavior, limited to peer relationships at a young age, she termed “adolescent-limited.” She also identified a less common “life-course persistent” antisocial behavior, which resulted in a persistence of violence into midlife. "
Weed: " unlike tobacco users, marijuana users tended to stay healthy into midlife."
Self control: ""boys and girls with less self-control had worse health, less wealth, and more crime as adults than those with more self-control at every level of the distribution of self-control.”Another related study suggested a 5-item questionnaire at doctors’ offices could identify children who needed motivational counseling to make healthy decisions, which would greatly increase their chances of better health later in life."
> these effects only occurred among those who smoked marijuana daily; more infrequent users suffered essentially none of these effects.
As an anecdote, I noticed this in three of my friends who smoked daily for years (2-4 years), out of four friends who did and I didn't notice this at all in friends who smoked occasionally (out of... many friends).
2. "method of cognitive testing and digital imaging of the brain through the retina. Using this “non-invasive window to the brain” to identify at-risk children for targeted treatment might decrease a child’s risk of debilitating mental illness later in life."
I don't believe in any supernatural phenomena, the afterlife, or fate etc., but I find his concept of the Gift of Men to be a fascinating look at death.
When I thought of the elves perspective, I can see that while they are super cool, they can't live the lives the way we of mankind do. We have the ability to appreciate life and feel life very intensely, precisely because we know with certainty an upper bound to our expiration date.
(For full disclosure I lean more towards the afterlife being a reality than not, this has of course affected how I read Tolkien, and C.S. Lewis, for that matter...)
However, I ultimately think the biggest takeaway from this study is that it will provide data for researchers in multiple fields for years to come, and will encourage cross-disciplinary study. And, because it worked so well, because there was a high retention of participants, further studies of its kind can be modeled from it, which will give us an even greater perspective on the course of a human life and the events which shape us.
Maybe I'm quaint and silly but this kind of overhyped byline makes me doubt that there will be any kind of insight here which thousands of years of recorded human thought hasn't already captured.
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