I can't top the housework example, but here is another one I ran
across recently --
positive mood guards against getting colds at
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20061216/fob2.asp
Just a reminder, you can find a long list of these correlation
causation confusions at the following
Today's New York Times front page has another one, between years of
schooling and longevity, but the article discusses the CC issue and discusses
ways
the investigations were done to determine that there is a cause-effect
relationship and that it is not an intervening factor that is
On Jan 2, 2007, at 9:05 AM, Ken Steele wrote:
.And my favorite portion of the article--
She [the study coauthor] said parents should carefully consider
whether they want their daughters reading about weight loss.
''It possibly would be helpful to teen girls if their mothers
didn't
