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- From: payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne)
- Subject: More endurance/more doctor visits.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.045250.1653@netcom.com>
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- References: <1992Dec21.000615.154@netcom.com> <1992Dec10.142534.16313@cs.cornell.edu> <1hshirINNh85@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:52:50 GMT
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- In article <1hshirINNh85@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> axb39@po.CWRU.Edu (Ann Burlingham) writes:
- >
- >>
- >>Curiously, women seek medical aid more often than men, even excluding
- >>gyn/obs visits. It may be true that women have more capacity for endurance,
- >>but in practice, it would seem that they do not use it. Kinda makes one
- >>wonder.
- >
- >I don't see the logic here.
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- Perhaps the cause is that the statement is statistical in nature, and logic
- is irrelevant. (Do I sound like a Borg?)
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- > Maybe it's like the "women have to be twice as
- >good as men to be thought half so" thing - how do you know women aren't
- >enduring more? Checked any domestic violence (i.e., long-term sustained
- >endurance) statistics lately?
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- You have it completely backwards. Women SEEK seek Seek sEEk seeKK sEek
- medical attention more than men, even discounting the gyn/obs visits.
- They see the doctor more often, I cannot think of many ways to say this,
- please work with me, OK?
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- And if they were enduring more, would you not expect them to see the
- doctor -less-? Maybe there is a logical problem as well. <sigh>
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- Can we refrain from political interpretation? I admit that black is
- white, and white is black, and when I do it to you I'm a sexist, but
- you are not if you do it to me.
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- >Ann Burlingham If this be the best of all possible
- >2752 Hampshire Rd., Apt. 3 worlds, what can the rest be like?
- >Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44106 Voltaire: Candide
- >(216) 397-7458
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- [I miss the Ohio winters]
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- Rich
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- payner@netcom.com
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