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N = 1000 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0283301 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... >> Focusing

N = 1000 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0283301 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... >> Focusing on adults aged 70 or older, we find that parents express more life regret (M = 3.87, SE = 0.20) than childfree adults (M = 3.30, SE = 0.39), but that the difference is not statistically significant (t127 = 1.29, p = 0.20). This suggests that childfree adults do not experience more life regret than parents in their late years of life.

ttymck 4y ago
Decent sample size. Sample was pretty heavily weighted towards parents, though. Is "life regret" a 1-5 discrete measurement? I'd like to see the distribution of sample measurements. p=0.2 feels strong enough for me to at least consider the possibility of no children == more regret (correlated, if not causal)
- bscphil 4y ago
  > p=0.2 feels strong enough for me to at least consider the possibility of no children == more regret You got the correlation backwards. In their sample, parents experienced more regret.