On subject selection in cognitive aging research
- 1 March 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Experimental Aging Research
- Vol. 10 (1), 43-49
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03610738408258541
Abstract
Recent practices of [human] subject selection in cognitive aging research are surveyed and examples are provided of how the magnitude of age differences in the overall population could be under- or over-estimated given different sample distributions of gender, health, education and intellectual functioning. some guidelines are suggested for consideration in future research.This publication has 25 references indexed in Scilit:
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