All data collection and analysis methods have limitations

Reply to Rabbitt (2011) and Raz and Lindenberger (2011)

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ID7983400
AutoresTimothy A Salthouse (University of Virginia, autor correspondente)
Ano2011
Volume137
Fascículo5
Páginas796-799
Data de publicação2011-01-01
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPsychological Bulletin (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0033-2909 • E-ISSN: 1939-1455
EditoraAmerican Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1037/a0024843
PMID21859180
PMCIDPMC3160711
OpenAlexW2082040306
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas5

The commentaries on my article contain a number of points with which I disagree but also several with which I agree. For example, I continue to believe that the existence of many cases in which between-person variability does not increase with age indicates that greater variance with increased age is not inevitable among healthy individuals up to about 80 years of age. I also do not believe that problems of causal inferences from correlational information are more severe in the cognitive neuroscience of aging than in other research areas; I contend instead that neglect of these problems has led to confusion about neurobiological underpinnings of cognitive aging. I agree that researchers need to be cautious in extrapolating from cross-sectional to longitudinal relations, but I also note that even longitudinal data are limited with respect to their ability to support causal inferences

Causal inference · Cognition · Cognitive aging · Cognitive psychology · Confusion · Developmental psychology · Econometrics · Longitudinal data · Neglect · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Variance (accounting) · Advanced Causal Inference Techniques · Demography · Health disparities and outcomes · Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging · Mathematics · Psychology

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