Re: alzheimer's study

From: Kevin Freels (megaquark@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Sep 03 2003 - 15:44:15 MDT

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    Cute. Sentences like that should protect you. They won't protect me very
    well.
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Spike" <spike66@comcast.net>
    To: <extropians@extropy.org>
    Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 11:09 PM
    Subject: alzheimer's study

    >
    > This is a study which came out a few years ago. Anyone
    > hear of an update?
    >
    > http://www.alzheimers.org/nianews/nianews6.html
    >
    > "...The ground-breaking study ... found that the complexity of the
    > sisters' writings as young women had a great deal to do with how they
    > fared cognitively later in life..."
    >
    >
    > It occurred to me that the extropians archives provides
    > the basis for a similar study of the complexity of
    > poster's sentence structure in the younger years versus
    > their later development of Alzheimer's disease and other
    > cognitive degradation conditions, as noted in the URL cited
    > where it was demonstrated that the nuns whose writings showed
    > the most complicated and convoluted sentence structure were
    > those least likely to develop Alzheimer's disease later in
    > life, although we must recognize the possibility that a
    > knowledge of the study itself may result in an unconscious
    > tendency or perhaps an intentional effort to communicate with
    > preposterously complex sentence structure, which may in
    > fact skew the outcome and result in some extremely pedantic
    > sentences which would be nearly impossible to diagram
    > because of all the digressions, clauses and other useless
    > clutter that is inserted or appended in an attempt to protect
    > oneself from getting Alzheimers disease as well as a reluctance
    > to use periods, causing posters to choose instead to end their
    > marathon sentences with a comma,
    >
    > spike
    >
    >



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