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- From: rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla)
- Subject: Re: PAS or Post Abortion Syndrome
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.174325.21352@cs.yale.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:43:25 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.172920.12113@noao.edu> forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
- >From article <C0xtt6.F3u.1@cs.cmu.edu>, by garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Garvin):
- >> How large? How quickly? [is project Rachel growing -- ekr]
- >>
- >> Oh, sorry, I forgot, this is Suzanne. She won't have any actual
- >> data to back up her claims. Never mind.
- >What do you care. It's mere continued existance in cities across the country
- >prove the existence of Post Abortion Syndrome.
- I thought you "did science" Suzanne?
- Haven't you ever heard of a "control group"?
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- Think about it. There are certainly people who experience mental disorders.
- There are certainly people who have had abortions. If these two
- are statistically independent, we would expect that there are
- going to be people who experience mental problems and who have
- had abortions. Some of these(engaging in the Post Hoc fallacy) will
- probably believe that the two are related, whether they are or not.
- Therefore the existence of Project Rachel proves exactly nothing.
- -Ekr
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