[craftinator]

You beat me to this by 5 minutes. It seems pretty obvious that the path of causation tends in this direction, rather than the other. And even if there is a signal going the other direction, extracting it from the noise caused by "people who have health and financial stability" seems impossible, unless the sample group were all of people who have lived to at least 85 without having these traits.

[lonelappde]

"seems pretty obvious" is not how science works

[craftinator]

Thank you for your fantastic insight! If you read the part of my comment that is not the first sentence, you'll see where I give logical reasoning supporting that first sentence... Sort of how a paper supports it's abstract. "Seems pretty obvious" translates to "becomes clear with simple logical reasoning", probably should have revised that for the snob crowd. I actually prefer logical reasoning in my science, what about you?