Dr. Robert Waldinger
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Yeah.
Yeah.
We had a serial murderer.
We just discovered that recently.
Get out of here.
Yeah.
In the inner city group, we had a serial murderer.
But most people weren't infamous or famous or anything.
They were just people living their lives.
Yeah.
Nothing has continued this long.
This is unheard of.
Too many people usually drop out even after five years of a longitudinal study.
It's no longer valuable because we don't know what happens to the people who drop out.
In our study,
Out of all these 2,500 plus people, we've had a 22% dropout rate over 87 years, which is tiny compared to what you would expect.
And part of the way it happened is we created a sense of community, actually.
What we did was we had...
We had one person, usually it was a woman, a very maternal woman, who was like the study secretary.
And she was like mission control.