User:Fallible

This is a wonderful addition to the Wiki and I look forward to the rest of the series and appreciate the skill and experience that’s going into them.

I approached this first article as a retiree (looking at the spending “trends”) and former journalist/editor (thinking of the target audience). My first thought is that this first article is quite technical, focusing a lot on the studies themselves so that it would be enjoyed by financial planners and software developers first and then individuals (retirees, near-retirees, etc.). My guess is that the latter will be looking mainly for more details on the spending trends noted, as they’ll most easily relate to those, rather than technical aspects of the studies. For example, they probably will want to see more on housing spending since it is the largest and what the category includes. It would also be important to note higher up (or possibly in the planned summary) what the definition of “retired” includes since it is, as noted, “rather strict.”

It may be that the other articles and the all-important “summary page” planned will lead the series and pull together key findings of the studies along with key technical aspects of the studies.

--Fallible 13:40, 10 August 2011 (EDT)