• Kairos@lemmy.today
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    3 months ago

    But if you can follow all correlations you effectively get the same result anyway.

    That’s also wrong.

    The specific thing I’m worried about is, younger people are more likely to be vegetarian or vegan. Young people are less likely to be diagnosed with cancer (it’s impossible to measure existence of cancer in a population). I read the abstract and methods, there’s no indication this study accounted for this.

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      3 months ago

      The average age of vegetarians in the study is over 65, and a few years older than the non vegetarians. In the table under Results.

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      3 months ago

      Age would be one of the correlations so it’s not wrong. I never said everyone can follow all the correlations I said if you can, if you hit all the variables you get the result regardless of knowing what variables caused said result.