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The Harvard Study - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Most lived in tenements without hot and cold running water
- - - - Health Information: Every 5 years, health info was collected from the men and their physicians to assess their mental health.
      - Interviews: Many men from both groups have been interviewed every 5-10 years to document additional info about their relationships, careers, and adjustment to aging.
      - Questionnaires: every two years, the men from both cohorts about their physical and mental health, marital quality, career or retirement enjoyment, and many other aspects of their lives.
- - - - It is hard to find out what really works out through research because you need to look at an entire lifetime, and memory is unreliable.
      - Mark Twain: Some of the worst things in my life never happened
      - The Harvard Study was an attempt to see from a research end what really keeps people happy and healthy
        
        Tracked the lives of 724 men for 75 years
        
        asked about their lives year after year not knowing how their lives would turn out
        
        Studies like this often do not work out because of the commitment of time it takes; researchers get distracted, lost funding, or even die and the project can be abandoned. Somehow, the Harvard Study worked out.
        
        60 of the original 724 men were alive at the time of the ted talk video in their 90's