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"Popularity" correlates with wealth, wealth correlates with health?

• ambicapter 9y ago
  Why don't you read the article?
  • deleted 9y ago
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  • joe_the_user 9y ago
    The article distinguishes between likability and status, sure but the survival statistics come from a huge meta-analysis and the status versus likability distinction comes another set of studies (so it's combining two measurement processes, inherently harder than just using one). Given the overall reproduction crisis in psychology, that it turns out rather few studies are actually reliable, it seems entirely plausible that the average of the survival studies didn't control well for wealth and ended up with sociological factors and the status versus likability question is kind of an irrelevant extra.
• gaius 9y ago
  wealth correlates with health? Except it doesn't! Why? Because the hidden variable is that wealthier people tend to be older! So you can easily construct a "proof" that the wealthier you are the more likely you are to die in the next few years...
  • grenoire 9y ago
    Overall healthiness as measured by lifespan and a cause-of-death index would help alleviate that conclusion.
  • pmiller2 9y ago
    That's why you'd control for age, using an age matched control group. (As well as race, gender, and maybe a couple of other factors.)