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Does the headline square with "patients who were hypertensive consumed significantly more salt than those without hypertension"?

• lutusp 12y ago
  Yes, because correlations don't prove causation. One might want to argue that people who are hypertensive consume more salt as an effect, not a cause. Not to argue that that is proven either, only that it should be on the list of possibilities that merit investigation.
  • pbreit 12y ago
    The headline used "association". Plus, the article seemed to indicate it was a causation, just not universal.
    • lutusp 12y ago
      It's important to understand that, until a cause-effect relationship is explained instead of being merely measured, it's not science. A more complete explanation is here: http://arachnoid.com/science_of_mind/ http://arachnoid.com/science_of_mind/
      • pbreit 12y ago
        I was making a simple observation that the headline clashed with the article.