[Paleopsych] NYT: Social Security Underestimates Future LifeSpans, Critics Say

Thu Jan 6 05:23:14 UTC 2005

I have heard many people do their best work after 55.

Having reached that age, it seems to me that it may
take that long to gain enough skill and experience
to do something really well.

Steve Hovland
www.stevehovland.net

-----Original Message-----
From:	Geraldine  Reinhardt [SMTP:waluk at earthlink.net]
Sent:	Wednesday, January 05, 2005 7:20 PM
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Subject:	Re: [Paleopsych] NYT: Social Security Underestimates Future LifeSpans,	Critics Say

If a scholar does excellent work then the fruits of his 
labor should continue until  he can no longer function 
with either a pen or keyboard.  Ernst Mayr, now over 
100 years old,  is such a person.  I recently came upon 
information that he and Jared Diamond have authored a 
new text:  The Birds of Northern Melanesia: Speciation, 
Ecology, & Biogeography by Ernst Mayr, Jared Diamond, 
H. Douglas Pratt.

Gerry Reinhart-Waller

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ross Buck" <ross.buck at uconn.edu>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 9:11 AM
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Underestimates Future LifeSpans,Critics Say

>I understand that Dewey did his best work in his 80's, 
>but of course his job
> did not depend all that much on hand-eye 
> coordination!
>
> Cheers, Ross
>
> Ross Buck, Ph. D.
> Professor of Communication Sciences
>   and Psychology
> Communication Sciences U-1085
> University of Connecticut
> Storrs, CT 06269-1085
> 860-486-4494
> fax  860-486-5422
> buck at uconnvm.uconn.edu
> http://www.coms.uconn.edu/docs/people/faculty/rbuck/index.htm
>
>
> "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as 
> when they do it from
> religious conviction."
>
> -- Blaise Pascal
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: paleopsych-bounces at paleopsych.org
> [mailto:paleopsych-bounces at paleopsych.org] On Behalf 
> Of Geraldine Reinhardt
> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 9:14 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Paleopsych] NYT: Social Security 
> Underestimates Future
> LifeSpans, Critics Say
>
> Today on my way home I as usual took my designated 
> exit
> off the freeway.  There parked alongside the shoulder
> of road was an elderly gentleman in a fancy black
> sedan.  Usually I never stop but this person looked a
> bit bewildered.....actually confused, so I braked and
> asked if he needed help.
>
> Turns out that he was on his way to a medical
> appointment, an eye doctor to be exact, and he needed
> to know which direction for Pasteur Drive.  He then
> said he was from San Francisco, a doctor himself, 
> and
> had become very confused trying to decipher his
> secretary's directions.   He also mentioned he was
> recently widowed and was seeing his wife's
> ophthalmologist because she had spoken so highly of 
> his
> ability with glaucoma procedures.
>
> Now I knew very well where Pasteur Drive was (it was
> two exits beyond my apartment turn off) but I wasn't
> certain if the road was clearly marked.  I then asked
> the gentleman if he would like to follow me and I'd
> lead him to his turn off.  How happy he became!  I 
> then
> asked the name of the ophthalmologist he had his
> appointment with. "Dr. Rubin.....only I know I'll not
> make it in time".
>
> "Amazing",  I replied.  "He's the eye doctor for both
> my husband and me"!  "But.... I don't know if I'm
> continuing....he alarmed me during my last 
> appointment
> when he was talking about doing corrective eye
> surgery".
>
> "How old do you suppose Dr. Rubin is", asked the
> stranger.
>
> Not wishing to age Dr. Rubin more than his years, I
> replied: "Maybe in his late 50's or somewhere in his
> 60's".  I knew Rubin had to be hitting retirement 
> age.
>
> "Oh" replied the doctor from San Francisco,  "I
> performed capillary surgery until I was 73 and then
> decided I needed to give it up".  "Yet my hands 
> didn't
> falter and I was always on top of each case."
>
> As I drove to Pasteur Drive I thought about 
> comparisons
> between repairing eye stuff and capillary
> surgery....were they similar?  For me, the person who
> needs to operate on my eyes should be young, bright 
> and
> brilliant.  Yet why should eyes be that different 
> from
> capillaries?
>
> Could be that we "see with our eyes".  What if we
> "looked" with our hearts?
>
> Either way, when is a doctor too old to assume his 
> role
> of physician?  I'd say that if many of us can 
> continue
> with our calling, doctors need to do the same.
> But....I'd like my eye-surgeon to retain a younger
> partner.
>
> Gerry Reinhart-Waller
> Independent Scholar
> http://www.home.earthlink.net/~waluk
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steve Hovland" <shovland at mindspring.com>
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> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 3:33 PM
> Subject: RE: [Paleopsych] NYT: Social Security
> Underestimates Future LifeSpans, Critics Say
>
>
>> Get ready to work longer than you expected :-)
>>
>> Steve Hovland
>> www.stevehovland.net
>>
>>
>> Social Security Underestimates Future Life Spans,
>> Critics Say
>> NYT December 31, 2004
>> By ROBERT PEAR
>
> --snip-- 
>
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