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- From: crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford)
- Newsgroups: alt.support.diet
- Subject: Re: Health Factors
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- Date: 23 Nov 92 22:18:39 GMT
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- In article <19921123115542CSMSCST@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU> CSMSCST@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU (Chris Thomas) writes:
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- >Right. Which is exactly anyone who understands research design
- >doesn't do research that way. You end up talking to exactly the
- >wrong people. Rather that looking at who smokes (is overweight,
- >has high BP, whatever) and has survived, you need to look at how
- >many people with that condiditon didn't survive.
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- Well, it's a fact: All fat people die.
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- Then again, all thin people die, too.
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- The trick of reason is to get the imagination to seize the actual world --
- if only from time to time. -- Annie Dillard, "An American Childhood"
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