According to the article Old Folks at Home, concerning the ability of older people to perform household tasks, a main finding was that:
(a) expertise from years of task performance helped the older people do better than the younger people on some tasks
(b) elderly people show deficits on tasks, even when the comparison with young people is as fair as possible
(c) the humor in the unfamiliar tasks gave elderly people an unfair advantage in this research
(d) if they were not tested in the lab, elderly people would probably perform ordinary tasks as well as young people do
B
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