That is absolutely a failing of the study, but it's the longest running longitudinal study ever, a design fault of the original investigators doesn't render 70 years of data useless. Also, although they don't seem to mention it in the article (I only skimmed) there was a similar study started with inner-city, under privileged men that got absorbed by this one. And while that doesn't deal with the gender issue, it does deal with the class issue.
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Date: 2009-05-15 09:45 pm (UTC)Also, although they don't seem to mention it in the article (I only skimmed) there was a similar study started with inner-city, under privileged men that got absorbed by this one. And while that doesn't deal with the gender issue, it does deal with the class issue.