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Walking slower? Your ears, not your knees, might be the problem
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#53An obvious confounding factor is age, did they accounted for this?
Yes, they did account for age.
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#54I walk slower and talk slower than I used to, and do both way slower than people I interact with. I can appreciate things better by moving slowly, with more intention, conserving my concentration and energy for matters of substance. Why must moving slowly be stigmatised? I am surrounded by people talking at such a high rate, they start responding before the other person's sentence or thought is completely expressed.…
Well, a slowing gait speed does strongly correlate with increasing mortality in the elderly: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3080184/
So we have to distinguish between walking slowly deliberately vs because one has trouble walking faster.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Why must moving slowly be stigmatized? Because, irrespective of your individual case, slowing down correlates strongly with ageing and diminished faculties.
https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
The correlation is well-documented in gerontology and not spurious at all.
Re: Walking slower? Your ears, not your knees, might be the problem
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why strength training, instead of, say, ultimate frisbee or pickleball?
I am convinced that ultimate frisbee and pickleball also work. Another one is running or walking in nature, for example a beach - basically moving through an environment where the ground isn't flat.
Frisbee and pickleball both have the nice property of being a mix of aerobic and anaerobic. They both reward bursts of power in addition to endurance.
Ordinary running doesn't do that, though there is a practice called "fartlek" (literally, speed-play) where you do random bursts of speed. It used to be considered excellent cross training, though I haven't heard the term in a while. (Perhaps because the name is unintentionally hilarious.)
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#57I find walking slowly quite difficult. I feel like I'm putting more effort to balance myself slowly and all in all it feels less stable than just "walking" at a moderate to brisk rate. I wonder if this is the same category of problem just in reverse...
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#58I walk slower and talk slower than I used to, and do both way slower than people I interact with. I can appreciate things better by moving slowly, with more intention, conserving my concentration and energy for matters of substance. Why must moving slowly be stigmatised? I am surrounded by people talking at such a high rate, they start responding before the other person's sentence or thought is completely expressed.…
There's a lot of truth in what you say but I think the conclusion you landed on is too broad.
There will exist people moving quickly who have failed to plan, but a lot also incorporate moving quickly as part of their plan, simply because that's how they prefer doing things.
It's true that this kind of planning is vulnerable to unexpected problems - a missed connection, a queue, whatever it might be - but over time it can still work out rational if you accept this risk and just want to spend less of your time in aggregate in transit, with spells of over-provisioned waiting time, or just prefer the experience of moving quickly (there is much said about the benefits of slowing down, less said about the equally valid disposition of finding flow in the act of moving quickly, which many people also experience).
Re: Walking slower? Your ears, not your knees, might be the problem
#59An obvious confounding factor is age, did they accounted for this?
From the article: > Not only does walking speed typically decrease with age, greater levels of hearing loss are linked with slower walking speed for adults of all ages. Why is it every time there's a study posted to HN, someone feels the need to go in and say, "Have the researchers thought of $incredibly_obvious_thing?"
Don’t know. Did you ever consider that HN appeals to intelligent people who like to ask questions before they read the whole article?
Re: Walking slower? Your ears, not your knees, might be the problem
#60An obvious confounding factor is age, did they accounted for this?
From the article: > Not only does walking speed typically decrease with age, greater levels of hearing loss are linked with slower walking speed for adults of all ages. Why is it every time there's a study posted to HN, someone feels the need to go in and say, "Have the researchers thought of $incredibly_obvious_thing?"
Because HN is little more than a Reddit exclave.