Category Archives: Aging

Atrocious medical reporting from people who should know better — when journalists and publicists leave out all quantified or quantifiable data, general statements about statistical significance mean little or nothing 0

© 2013 Peter Free Citation — to press release News and Multimedia, Studies show that in older patients hip fracture can be deadly and debilitating, International Osteoporosis Foundation (22 April 2013) Here is what International Osteoporosis Foundation wrote — apparently without thinking about the potentially scary message that they were communicating From the press release: [...]

Hope for curmudgeons ─ disagreeability may correlate with some aspects of intelligence 0

Be a jackass and feel good about it Sometimes I wonder why stupidity from supposedly intelligent people so visibly irritates me. Now I know why: In the cognitively superior older group, who outperformed both the cognitively comparable older adults and the younger adults on every ability tested, “agreeableness was found to have a contrary relationship [...]

Happily doddering into the fog 0

It could have been worse I’m fortunate (it seems) in having had a crappy memory for my personal history all my life. That way I avoid the disappointment that comes with confidently (a) remembering things that never happened or (b) misremembering things that did. And I don’t need to get depressed about more often forgetting [...]