>Does anyone else get tired of seeing this all the time? You're probably seeing it more often because more people have access to more data than ever before and

>Does anyone else get tired of seeing this all the time? You're probably seeing it more often because more people have access to more data than ever before and are making lots of connections that aren't necessarily connected. Floud probably stated it this way because of the inevitable eye-rolling that occurs in reaction to the more common way of saying it: Correlation does not imply causation. In this case, however, Floud is probably wrong. There is plenty of statistical evidence to prove links between traumatic childhoods and undesirable characteristics in adulthood. It isn't much further of a leap to assert that physical changes, as a result of unnatural levels of stress hormones etc., could occur.