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An increase in Vitamin D levels may or may not impact COVID 19 hospitalization rates. Just like lowering ice cream sales won’t change the murder rate. Even th
by rblatz 6y ago
An increase in Vitamin D levels may or may not impact COVID 19 hospitalization rates.
Just like lowering ice cream sales won’t change the murder rate. Even though increased Ice cream sales is correlated with increase murder rate.
- asveikau 6y agoI know your point is that correlation does not mean causation (though maybe those are correlated?), however, that really makes it sound like guys like Ben & Jerry have blood on their hands.
- beagle3 6y agorblatz is referring to a well known correlation: more nursery happen in summer. More ice cream gets sold in summer. Therefore, ice cream sales are correlated with murders. This correlation is not random - it holds across geographic boundaries and time. But it is not causal - decreasing ice cream sales (By limiting supply, raising price, etc) will not reduce murders. Decreasing murders (By more police intervention, limiting arms sales) does not reDuce ice cream sales. Similarly, vitamin D may be The ice cream analog. COVID 19 may be the murder analog, and if that’s true, we don’t yet know what summer’s analog here - could be obesity, or genetic factors, or something else. We don’t know.
- jmnicolas 6y ago> Even though increased Ice cream sales is correlated with increase murder rate. I thought you were kidding but no: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/07/warm-weather-homicide-rates-when-ice-cream-sales-rise-homicides-rise-coincidence.html https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/07/warm-weather-hom...