Study: Stop Being So Cynical, You Could Give Yourself Dementia 153
concertina226 (2447056) writes "Scientists from the University of Eastern Finland have found that people who have high levels of cynical distrust are three times as likely to suffer from dementia in later life, than those who have more faith in other people. Their study is the first of its kind to look at the relationship between cynicism and dementia. Entitled: 'Late-life cynical distrust, risk of incident dementia, and mortality in a population-based cohort', it is published in the latest issue of the journal Neurology. Over a period of eight years, the researchers studied 1,499 people, who all had an average age of 71. The participants were given tests for dementia and a questionnaire to measure their level of cynicism, based on the Cook-Medley Scale."
Re:Correlation is not causation (Score:3, Informative)
Seems these people and the OP have already given themselves stupidity...
To be fair, the causation implied by the idiotic headline in both the summary, and TFA, did not come from the study [neurology.org]. The authors were very careful to say that the effects were only "associated".
Re:Wait (Score:4, Informative)
Critical thinking is not the same thing as being cynical.
You can be skeptical without being cynical.