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Not a native English speaker but, isn’t the word “attributable” in the title at least misleading? Shouldn’t it be “linked” instead? The paper indicates correl
by jodosha 2y ago
Not a native English speaker but, isn’t the word “attributable” in the title at least misleading?
Shouldn’t it be “linked” instead?
The paper indicates correlation, not causality.
- omnicognate 2y agoBased on the abstract it's not a study showing that "Type 2 Diabetes and cardiovascular disease [are] attributable to sugar beverages", it's a paper quantifying the "[Amount of] Type 2 Diabetes and cardiovascular disease [that are] attributable to sugar beverages [in various countries]". The link and causation is already well established. This is trying to determine how much harm it's doing in different parts of the world.