From: Spike (spike66@comcast.net)
Date: Tue Sep 02 2003 - 22:09:22 MDT
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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