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Causation? Did they really have a large enough sample size of bored people who otherwise took great care of themselves to show this?
by ShabbyDoo 17y ago
Causation? Did they really have a large enough sample size of bored people who otherwise took great care of themselves to show this?
- xenophanes 17y agoHow would a large sample size have made correlation = causation?
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- Groxx 17y agoYou can't have a large enough sample size, because an external variable could be causing both boredom and death. Say, a hormonal imbalance that leads to heart failure. Boredom doesn't have to have anything to do with being a cause of death to have a 100% correlation in such a situation. Studies along these lines necessarily ignore external variables, because you can't account for them all.