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5 Sep 2024 07:24:41 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Cause and Effect again  
From: Slime
Date: 8 Sep 2009 05:16:48
Message: <4aa62100$1@news.povray.org>
> Why do the researcher see this as being plausible?  It seems much more 
> likely to me that the kids who (will eventually) have the fewest 
> behavioral problems are the ones who are most likely to display an "acute 
> reaction" to guilt.

Well, either the researchers were unaware of the difference between 
correlation and causation (which is taught in introductory level 
statistics), or a website named blogs.howstuffworks.com isn't accurately 
conveying the conclusions drawn by the study.

 - Slime
 [ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]


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