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If one sleeps less than 6 hours a night, maybe there's other reasons for that, that lead to stroke, like anxiety over being deep in debt. So reducing such risk
by genwin 14y ago
If one sleeps less than 6 hours a night, maybe there's other reasons for that, that lead to stroke, like anxiety over being deep in debt. So reducing such risk of stroke may not be as simple as getting more sleep.
Reminds me of the study that concluded that people living together (vs. married) leads to ~30% greater chance of alcholism. Maybe alcoholics just aren't as likely to get married?
Surely there's a Wiki on this type of logical fallacy somewhere. Anyone know what it's called?
- IvoDankolov 14y agoCorrelation does not imply causation? Statisticians like to use that one at every opportunity. Bear in mid, though, that "you shouldn't investigate correlations anyway" is absolutely the wrong conclusion from this.
- JoelMcCracken 14y agocorrelation does not imply causation
- davej 14y agoPerhaps 'Correlation does not imply causation'. The associated logical fallacy is known 'Post hoc ergo propter hoc'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_caus... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc
- genwin 14y agoGreat, I'll know now. I see a lot of such conclusions in major media. Wish they'd point out the fallacy, but that probably wouldn't sell the news as well! Love the example in the 2nd link: 'One class of examples is sometimes called the "Rooster Syndrome": "believing that the rooster’s crowing causes the sun to rise".'
- watmough 14y agoI had an interesting test imposed on me last night. Power outage, phone almost dead, children asleep. In bed at 9:30, asleep by 10pm and totally awake and annoying my wife with chatter at 4:30am. 6 and 1/2 hours sleep. Pretty normal for me. I work hard and am pretty happy.