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"But one local demographic variable did stand out as being protective" What does 'protective' mean in this context? I wondered if it was somehow a typo of 'pre
by MistahKoala 7y ago
"But one local demographic variable did stand out as being protective"
What does 'protective' mean in this context? I wondered if it was somehow a typo of 'predictive', but that's a bit of a leap for a typo.
- nyolfen 7y agoyou see it in medical literature; i believe it just means what it sounds like, ie that living in the environment they describe makes one statistically less likely to be a hiki