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To: blam

Or maybe, just maybe, children of moms who spend all day yakking on the phone develop behavioral problems for more prosaic reasons?

Who would give a cellphone to an under-ten?


2 posted on 05/18/2008 8:14:36 PM PDT by sinanju
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To: sinanju

Or children of moms who are driving while on the phone are stupider because of genetic duplication?


4 posted on 05/18/2008 8:28:58 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: sinanju

Yeah, how can they discern a nature (cell phone radiation effects) versus nurture (yakkity unattentive mothers) effects in this study without longitudinal studies with separated twins?


6 posted on 05/18/2008 9:23:27 PM PDT by JerseyHighlander
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Apparently these “scientists” were not forced to take a statistics class during their indoctrinations. Correlation does not imply causation. I’m sure there are more reasons than cell phones behind the bad behavior (narcissistic parents who won’t get off the phone to tend to their children, or maybe the fear of swatting a misbehaving kid in public leads to a lack of discipline).


7 posted on 05/18/2008 9:41:05 PM PDT by Skenderbej
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