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Re:People who tend to be optimistic are likelier to live to ... by JackPoach on Monday December 23, 2019 @01:04AM (#21861774)
"The study included 69,744 women and 1,429 men."

Does this mean it's much easier to find optimistic women than men?

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Re:People who tend to be optimistic are likelier to live to ... by andreareina on Monday December 23, 2019 @03:35AM (#21862259)
"Data are from 2 cohorts, women from the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS) and men from the Veterans Affairs Normative Aging Study (NAS)"

[0] https://www.pnas.org/content/116/37/18357.short

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Re:People who tend to be optimistic are likelier to live to ... by blihp on Monday December 23, 2019 @01:58AM (#21861958)
Probably easier to find women still alive at that age. (Here in the U.S. at least, women tend to outlive men by ~5 years)
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Re:People who tend to be optimistic are likelier to live to ... by adventskalender on Monday December 23, 2019 @02:15AM (#21861997)
If women are more optimistic than men, then that alone could be sufficient to yield the results of the study (correlation).
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