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