Before differences between men and women can be
established in studies like this one, he says, several factors must be taken into account.
He deserves most credit for this paper; the only reason I could
participate in a study like this is because he had the idea and kindly asked me to be involved.
These findings reflect a correlation, a trend, not a direct cause (there are too many
factors in studies like these to pinpoint causation), but they give us food for thought.
Thanks to the
data in studies like this, many NFL players now live quite frugally, despite their hefty paychecks.
As the lead computational scientist on the paper, Dr John Marioni at EMBL - EBI, said: «Making sense of the data
generated in studies like this is only possible thanks to ongoing advances in computational biology.
Knowledge
gained in studies like the ones from the Zhang, You, and Nathanson labs have important implications for treating patients.
«They are much less
common in studies like mine, involving people with serious health conditions such as cancer.
Another inherent
difficulties in studies like these, Collins said, was choosing the most effective way to measure financial literacy in young adults.
Her research represents one of the most extensive sample
sizes in studies like this and while it's a work in progress, it stands to have important implications in the field and the Games for Change community.
Rob DeConto, a professor at UMass Amherst who researches prehistoric climates, and who was not involved with the study, described the report as a «nice job» that «used a lot more data than anybody else has
used in a study like this.»
I know it's really difficult to correct for confounding
factors in a study like that but if we're really talking about «the future of mankind» shouldn't we be seeing some really profoundly alarming differences between the two?