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Because your chance of diabetes goes up 1.1% for every glass of water you drink?
by themgt 14y ago
Because your chance of diabetes goes up 1.1% for every glass of water you drink?
- mpyne 14y agoConsumption of dihydrogen monoxide correlates perfectly with onset of diabetes. In fact there is not one single person who has developed diabetes who hasn't ingested DHMO at some point in their life.
- sophacles 14y agoNope, its actually a correlation of 0. All the people who didn't get diabetes had the same DHMO consumption. If you want to be snarky, do try to at least make sense.
- mpyne 14y agoNo, the R^2 is 1.0 between (dhmo-exposure,got-diabetes). You're talking about (dhmo-exposure,!got-diabetes) which turns out to also have a 1.0 correlation, which was kind of the point of my snark in the first place. Those who don't understand even the basics of correlation are doomed to be led astray by statistics. The authors of the paper in question seem to understand it just fine, it would be nice if we could expect even minimal statistic comprehension from those making follow-on claims using the paper as supporting evidence.
- gamblor956 14y agoNo, your snark fails because you picked the wrong variables. Got Diabetes necessarily implies a population of Did Not Get Diabetes, so the r^2 would not be 1.0. On the other hand, the r^2 between Have Diabetes and Water Exposure would be 1.0.
- stretchwithme 14y agoCorrelation is not causation.
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- __david__ 14y agoNo, because it's flat out fatal if you inhale too much of it.
- jlgreco 14y agoOr for that matter, drink to much of it. Water intoxication is real and potentially life threatening, not just in theory but practice as well. The key difference between water and sugar here is that most people stop drinking water when they've had to much.