In article >,
The Cook > wrote:

> 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.

Good point.
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