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30 Apr 2016, 1:23 pm

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The study only shows a correlation between the two and does not show that aerial pesticide spraying causes autism. It also does not provide information about whether a child could have been exposed during pregnancy or after


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01 May 2016, 5:17 am

Wonderful. So let's rather have malaria than autism.



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01 May 2016, 6:55 am

Correlation is not causation.

Here are some lovely examples: http://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations


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01 May 2016, 10:00 pm

SpacedOutAndSmiling wrote:
Correlation is not causation.

Here are some lovely examples: http://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations


My favorite is per capita chicken consumption correlated with US crude oil imports, mostly b/c I read the wrong label and thought chicken consumption was measured in barrels...


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