Comment by specproc
16 hours ago
Studies typically use regression to account for stuff like that. CBA to look at the article, but I bet any money that's controlled for.
16 hours ago
Studies typically use regression to account for stuff like that. CBA to look at the article, but I bet any money that's controlled for.
> After adjusting for age, sex, race, ethnicity and education, roughly 1 in 100 taxi and ambulance drivers died of Alzheimer’s, compared with 1 in 60 people overall.
So no indication they accounted for the expected lifespan of the profession.
Adjusting for age seems like an indication to me
It’s insufficient. For example, the people who develop Alzheimer’s may for whatever reason may be less likely to survive the profession where Alzheimer’s is the cause of death (eg getting into a fatal car accident where undiagnosed early onset is the problem). Bus drivers typically drive the same route over and over and probably have safer trips overall than taxi and ambulance drivers.
It’s a plausible hypothesis but it’s really really hard to tease things out and controlling for age is the obvious thing but that doesn’t get you the conclusive result you think it does.
Adjusting for sample/population age is the simplest interpretation of that
1 reply →
Seems like a fair point.
> CBA to look at the article
then don't post
Mate, you ever read a scientific paper? You dig regression? Did you read TFA yourself? Was I wrong?