Comments on: This year, resolve not to kill yourself with poor decisions http://dukeresearchadvantage.com/laura/2009/01/01/this-year-resolve-not-to-kill-yourself-with-poor-decisions/ Research that Matters Thu, 27 May 2010 07:41:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Steve Hutcherson http://dukeresearchadvantage.com/laura/2009/01/01/this-year-resolve-not-to-kill-yourself-with-poor-decisions/comment-page-1/#comment-385 Steve Hutcherson Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:14:30 +0000 http://dukeresearchadvantage.com/?p=563#comment-385 Maybe the answer is revealed in Professor Keeney's publication, but it occurs to me that the validity of the quantitative message here (55% of deaths today vs 5% in 1900) might be compromised by the underlying methods used to collect and report the causes of death, not to mention the societal and cultural changes over this 100+ year span. For example, the advent of penicillin as the first highly effective antibiotic effectively dramatically reduced the number of people dying from infections diseases in this age group while allowing other diseases implicated as "life choices" to have a more insidious impact on emerging causes of death, e.g., cardiovascular diseases. So I'm not sure that I can accept the magnitude of the increase in deaths attributed to "life choices" as valid, but I certainly accept the point that daily decisions about our health have cumulative implications for longevity. The most important takeaway message is that "common sense" is never so "common" nor as "sensible" as the ideal.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('385','Steve Hutcherson','Maybe the answer is revealed in Professor Keeney\'s publication, but it occurs to me that the validity of the quantitative message here (55% of deaths today vs 5% in 1900) might be compromised by the underlying methods used to collect and report the causes of death, not to mention the societal and cultural changes over this 100+ year span. For example, the advent of penicillin as the first highly effective antibiotic effectively dramatically reduced the number of people dying from infections diseases in this age group while allowing other diseases implicated as \"life choices\" to have a more insidious impact on emerging causes of death, e.g., cardiovascular diseases. So I\'m not sure that I can accept the magnitude of the increase in deaths attributed to \"life choices\" as valid, but I certainly accept the point that daily decisions about our health have cumulative implications for longevity. \n\nThe most important takeaway message is that \"common sense\" is never so \"common\" nor as \"sensible\" as the ideal.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Maybe the answer is revealed in Professor Keeney’s publication, but it occurs to me that the validity of the quantitative message here (55% of deaths today vs 5% in 1900) might be compromised by the underlying methods used to collect and report the causes of death, not to mention the societal and cultural changes over this 100+ year span. For example, the advent of penicillin as the first highly effective antibiotic effectively dramatically reduced the number of people dying from infections diseases in this age group while allowing other diseases implicated as “life choices” to have a more insidious impact on emerging causes of death, e.g., cardiovascular diseases. So I’m not sure that I can accept the magnitude of the increase in deaths attributed to “life choices” as valid, but I certainly accept the point that daily decisions about our health have cumulative implications for longevity.

The most important takeaway message is that “common sense” is never so “common” nor as “sensible” as the ideal.

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]]> By: Andres Alvarez http://dukeresearchadvantage.com/laura/2009/01/01/this-year-resolve-not-to-kill-yourself-with-poor-decisions/comment-page-1/#comment-166 Andres Alvarez Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:07:03 +0000 http://dukeresearchadvantage.com/?p=563#comment-166 I agree and respect this New Research from Professor Keeney. However, we need to understand that Life is an experiment to find out what works best for us. We also need to be concius about our choices and responsible about our actions because we all looking for a purpose and conection in our life. We need to gather information from within ourself and other sources to learn about those available alternatives before making a decision. We need to educate people about the importance and benefits of well develop decision making process to live better. Andres Alvarez Miami, Fl<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('166','Andres Alvarez','I agree and respect this New Research from Professor Keeney. \r\nHowever, we need to understand that Life is an experiment to find out what works best for us. We also need to be concius about our choices and responsible about our actions because we all looking for a purpose and conection in our life. \r\nWe need to gather information from within ourself and other sources to learn about those available alternatives before making a decision.\r\nWe need to educate people about the importance and benefits of well develop decision making process to live better. \r\nAndres Alvarez\r\nMiami, Fl'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I agree and respect this New Research from Professor Keeney.
However, we need to understand that Life is an experiment to find out what works best for us. We also need to be concius about our choices and responsible about our actions because we all looking for a purpose and conection in our life.
We need to gather information from within ourself and other sources to learn about those available alternatives before making a decision.
We need to educate people about the importance and benefits of well develop decision making process to live better.
Andres Alvarez
Miami, Fl
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