| ▲ | cortic an hour ago | ||||||||||||||||
Taxi Drivers: The mean age at death is approximately 67.8 years. General Population: in the same dataset, life expectancy averaged 74 years. The average age at which patients are typically diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease is 79. People in these jobs don't live long enough on average to get diagnosed, at the same rate. The same effect will happen in any job that lowers your life expectancy. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | glitchc 44 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
They are likely studying individuals that retired without getting fatally stabbed or shot on the job. | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | TacticalCoder an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
That's very interesting but why do taxi drivers have a job that lowers life expectancy? Is it because they're sitting too much? Or because they're inhaling CO from cars too much? Or staying inside (the car) too much? Or is it just stressful? For from the look of it it doesn't look like an exceptionally hard job (btw a brother of mine did years of "VTC": "Vehicule de Tourisme avec Chauffeur", basically high-end taxis without the "taxi" logo). | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | Barrin92 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
As the paper points out that's accounted for in the analysis, because shockingly enough to most internet commentators researchers know that they need to control for confounding variables | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | nuxi 4 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
De Niro is 82, no Alzheimer's. /s | |||||||||||||||||