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Drinking over 1 pint "raises cancer risk"
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Devil's Sunrise Wrote:Is this causation or correlation?

(Because I know people that drink goes on parties way more often than others, so, you know, maybe the reason is parties instead?)

You mean some lurking variables? I think this is an observational study and not an experiment. If it is an observational study, then a cause and effect link CANNOT be concluded from the results. That's just basics statistics.
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Drinking over 1 pint "raises cancer risk" - by Mira - 2011-04-12, 08:22 PM

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