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"During my Ethnographic labours amongst those wild people I have visited 150 Tribes, containing more than two millions of souls ;" > That's what you call a "ve
by breck 2y ago
"During my Ethnographic labours amongst those wild people I have visited 150 Tribes, containing more than two millions of souls ;"
> That's what you call a "very strong dataset"‽
Yes!!!
- wizzwizz4 2y agoThe book doesn't contain two million points of data. Count the actual number of statistics in the book: I doubt you'll get more than a dozen.
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- wizzwizz4 2y agoThat's an unusual use of language. Even by your standards, though, the book fails. The data mentioned in the book, while interesting, doesn't justify the author's claims.
- breck 2y agoHe had visited 150 tribes and all practiced closed mouths and all had excellent health and great teeth. Then, he had visited England which did not practice closed mouths and had poor health and poor teeth. That's strong advice.
- wizzwizz4 2y agoHe had visited 150 bands, none of whom spoke English (as a primary language) and all had excellent health and great teeth. Then, he visited England which did speak English (as a primary language) and had poor health and poor teeth. Frankly, the conclusion is irrefutable.
- breck 2y agoThere are no randomized controlled trials showing parachutes work. A working model of nature >> a large symbolic dataset >> a large personal dataset >> anecdotes. This is a bit of #1 and #3. Sure, #2 would be great, but #1 (mouth breathing bad) seems highly likely given both studying anatomy and modeling the physics of breathe and also given his dataset #3.
- wizzwizz4 2y agoNone of the evidence in that book supports this claim. (It's a mixture of unrelated anthropological observations, and appeal to nature.) I agree that mouth breathing is probably bad. I don't agree that it causes spinal deformation or smallpox. I really don't think taping the mouth shut is a safe treatment for sleep apnea.