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This paper surveys the recent practices of subject selection in cognitive aging research and provides examples of how the magnitude of age differences in the overall population could be under- or over-estimated given different sample distributions of gender, health, education and intellectual functioning. Some guidelines are suggested for consideration in future research.
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