On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:45:39 -0600, Omelet >
wrote:

>In article >,
> "James Silverton" > wrote:
>
>> Nancy2 wrote on Mon, 9 Feb 2009 09:19:40 -0800 (PST):
>>
>>
>> >> whether athletes use it. As for folks who support keeping it
>> >> illegal, I hope that something really tragic happens in your
>> >> life. You deserve it. It's because of busybody folks like
>> >> you that many undeserving people have gone to jail. Violent
>> >> criminals have been released earlier to make room for "vice"
>> >> offenders. I really do hate you.
>> >>
>> >> --Bryan
>>
>> > http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/...r.html?ref=rss
>>
>> > (Weak link between pot and testicular cancer - which would you
>> > rather have?)
>>
>> Come to the front of the class, go to the blackboard (whiteboard,
>> perhaps) and write 100 times, "Correllation does not prove causality".
>
>A fact very few statisticians seem to understand. <g>

One of things you learn in Statistics class. It's the reporters who
do not understand it.
--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974)