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To: churchillbuff

Sure, but which is the cause and which the effect?


26 posted on 08/18/2005 3:43:43 PM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and open the Land Office)
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...one additional serving of fries per week at ages three to five increased breast cancer risk by 27 percent...

As my old prof used to say, the First Rule of Statistics is that CORRELATION DOES NOT PROVE CAUSATION. And, as he also used to say, it's the first rule forgotten.


29 posted on 08/18/2005 3:56:59 PM PDT by OldArmy94
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