The Longevity Project by Howard Friedman and Leslie Martin, purposes one of the most intriguing questions. “Who lives the longest”? This study covered over an eight-decade span that was first started by Dr. Terman. Terman wanted to measure gifted children during the 1920’s to see their intellectual leadership and if he could identify early glimpses of high potential in these gifted children. But it wouldn’t be to well after where these students would actually be followed up well into their late age. During Terman’s time these children were born around 1910, but when Howard Friedman and Leslie Martin would conduct their research on the Terman study they wouldn’t be till 80 years later following the last two remaining subjects in this study.
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This study was conducted over an eight-decade time span, and even though it may seem like a long time, it actually makes sense because they are studying the key to longevity and they are studying the life span of a person and understanding and looking at each aspect of these participants life. They analyze each aspect of an individual to understand why someone lived longer then another person. For future reference, it would be really interesting if researchers actually conducted a life-span longitudinal study on a mother who is pregnant during her second or third trimester. Analyze her lifestyle, measure her personality while she is pregnant, measure stress- level, maybe measure her food intake, and measure what she eats and how that may affect the development of the fetus. Also, once the other has given birth, measure the baby’s reactions to stress and environmental factors. Also it would be really interesting if a researcher and their team could follow up on this individual from before birth, early infancy, toddle hood, early adolescence and so on. Maybe every two-threes years a researcher while come to the family house and observe the individual. It would be really interesting to see how this could affect the research results, because the researcher would be measuring the individual, from before birth. Also, I know the study measured gifted children from the middle class, but it would also be interesting to measure children gifted or not, from a low SES, it would be interesting to compare the two groups and measure to see if people from a low, middle or high SES, and how longevity may be impacted due to SES. Some possible questions to observe would be, 1) How does SES affect longevity? 2) How can we improve longevity in lower SES communities? This would be really intriguing to see how these groups differed from one another. It would be interesting to measure all these different
This study was conducted over an eight-decade time span, and even though it may seem like a long time, it actually makes sense because they are studying the key to longevity and they are studying the life span of a person and understanding and looking at each aspect of these participants life. They analyze each aspect of an individual to understand why someone lived longer then another person. For future reference, it would be really interesting if researchers actually conducted a life-span longitudinal study on a mother who is pregnant during her second or third trimester. Analyze her lifestyle, measure her personality while she is pregnant, measure stress- level, maybe measure her food intake, and measure what she eats and how that may affect the development of the fetus. Also, once the other has given birth, measure the baby’s reactions to stress and environmental factors. Also it would be really interesting if a researcher and their team could follow up on this individual from before birth, early infancy, toddle hood, early adolescence and so on. Maybe every two-threes years a researcher while come to the family house and observe the individual. It would be really interesting to see how this could affect the research results, because the researcher would be measuring the individual, from before birth. Also, I know the study measured gifted children from the middle class, but it would also be interesting to measure children gifted or not, from a low SES, it would be interesting to compare the two groups and measure to see if people from a low, middle or high SES, and how longevity may be impacted due to SES. Some possible questions to observe would be, 1) How does SES affect longevity? 2) How can we improve longevity in lower SES communities? This would be really intriguing to see how these groups differed from one another. It would be interesting to measure all these different