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• W4205777002 abstract "SignificanceVolume 7, Issue 4 p. 171-171 FeaturesFree Access Dr Fisher's casebook Keep dancing! First published: 18 November 2010 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2010.00454.xAboutSectionsPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Dr Johnson remarked that “No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.” If the great lexicographer was right, then I am a blockhead, for these little essays bring me neither fortune nor fame. They do, however, bring me something else: pleasure. I was put in mind of Johnsons words when I partly heard a news story about the death of a Russian ballet dancer. She had been a favourite of Stalin, which made me see the sanguinary tyrant in a slightly different light, and had danced for 30 years at the Bolshoi. She was 104 years old. What caught my ear and made this story seem truly inspiring was that she taught ballet until she was 96! Perhaps she stopped doing the practical demonstration of the entrechat towards the end, but she kept working. I have no idea whether the real ballerina was forced to do this by financial need, but the dancer of my imagination did it for a completely different reason: love. When I first started going to RSS meetings as a young statistician, I was very impressed to see in the flesh some of the originators of the statistical methods I had been taught. One of these was Frank Yates, collaborator of my illustrious namesake in their Statistical Tables for Biological Agricultural and Medical Research, which I had so often consulted, and author of the continuity correction for the two-by-two contingency table chi-squared test. (Easy computing must be driving Yates’ correction, along with books of statistical tables, to rapid extinction, but it also enables you to check just what a good approximation Yates’ continuity correction provides to the Fisher-Irwin exact probability.) Yates must have been aged around 70 when I first heard him speak and he seemed to me tremendously old and venerable. I found the experience very inspiring. Retirement did not seem to be a factor for statisticians, they simply kept going. One of my contemporaries, in the run-up to the official retirement age, told me that once he reached it he was going to retire and have no further involvement in statistics. I was amazed. To me, my work is my hobby. I think about it much of the time. Why else would I write these columns? I can imagine retiring from my job; sooner or later I shall have to make a pay-cheque available to a younger statistician. But statistics is such a large part of my world that I cannot imagine retiring from that. It is said that if you find a job that you love, you will never work again. For some of us, statistics is so variously fascinating that we would do it – well, I almost wrote whether we were paid or not, but let us not give the budget-cutters any more ideas! The data are on my side, too. A few years ago, Tsai et al. reported a study of survival after retirement of 3668 Shell Oil employees in the USA1. They compared groups who retired at 55, 60 and 65 years of age in terms of their survival beyond age 65. They estimated that after age 65 the hazard of death among those retiring at age 55 was 1.37 times greater than for those who retired at 65 (95% confidence interval 1.09 to 1.73), after adjustment for sex, calendar year of entry into the study, and socioeconomic group. You will not be surprised to hear that the early retirees were likely to be in a higher socioeconomic group than those retiring later, but early retirement from their more pleasant jobs may not have been as good a benefit for them as they might have thought. I continue to be inspired by people who keep on being productive in their field long after the expected age of retirement. Even Mick Jagger, well into the slippers-by-the-fire age range, still performs before large audiences and appears to do so as energetically as ever. I have mentioned my admiration of David Attenborough before in these columns, a man who in his eighties still radiates enthusiasm for his subject and communicates it widely. Richard Doll was in his eighties when I last heard him speak, an example to us all. So for those of us getting a little grey in service of statistics, let us bear in mind that Russian ballerina, still spreading the word at the age of 96. Not only will it be good for our subject and for our successors, but I think it might be good for ourselves, too. Reference 1Tsai, S. P., Wendt, J. K., Donnelly, R. P., de Jong, G. and Ahmed, F. S. (2005) Age at retirement and long term survival of an industrial population: prospective cohort study. British Medical Journal, 331, 995. PubMedWeb of Science®Google Scholar Volume7, Issue4December 2010Pages 171-171 ReferencesRelatedInformation" @default.
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