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I'm not sure "people with negative msgs in tattoos died 14 years earlier" sheds light for me on the TFA. TFA has a more direct, physical, concern - it starts f
by refulgentis 2y ago
I'm not sure "people with negative msgs in tattoos died 14 years earlier" sheds light for me on the TFA.
TFA has a more direct, physical, concern - it starts from a well-known, that tattoo ink ends up in lymph nodes, and it does a statistical analysis showing there's a significant statistical result in lymphoma occurence.
I think people with negative tattoos dying younger reduces the # of people with tattoos who get lymphoma, as they have less ink-in-lymph-nodes years.
- marcosdumay 2y agoIt shows the existence of some very strong confounding mechanisms.
- refulgentis 2y agoThere's certainly plenty of those! :) I doubt they intended to communicate something that general, and if they did, I doubt they meant to pick one that would reinforce the conclusion.