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Anecdotally I agree with the message, but the research looks weak indeed. A simple snapshot assessment and some scoring of an individual's (entire, self-report
by 2716057 1y ago
Anecdotally I agree with the message, but the research looks weak indeed.
A simple snapshot assessment and some scoring of an individual's (entire, self-reported!) social life is too simplistic. The measurements would have to be performed throughout the life of each participant with sufficiently high frequency.
- nicce 1y agoIf someone starts now, we may see results in 50 years?
- psychoslave 1y agoYou're the lucky guy today: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11852352/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11852352/
- derbOac 1y agoFor what it's worth, the dataset they used does in fact have measurements spanning 30 years of adulthood, and similar papers from that dataset leveraging the longitudinal data have found similar conclusions. Why it happens is less clear. It could be stress effects, or it could be something like people with more social support are more likely to get help going in for preventative care etc.