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Is there a reason you believe that the causality should be reversed? The article suggests they did tests post retirement and observed the rate of decline.
by sachdevap 7y ago
Is there a reason you believe that the causality should be reversed? The article suggests they did tests post retirement and observed the rate of decline.
- whatshisface 7y agoSomeone with health declining over a long period will retire and withdraw from everything, and then later on be tested to find that their health has been declining I think you will find that most retired people are dead, just by virtue of the fact that all dead people retire!
- sachdevap 7y agoThe study talks of rate of subsequent cognitive decline post retirement. There's no fixed state, which once reached, people start retiring. I think the study does control for reverse causality. It is not a correlational study.
- ct0 7y agoCould be stated that overworking early in life may lead to cognitive decline post retirement.