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From: chris@pyuxc.UUCP (R. Hollenbeck)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Being Single is Dangerous
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Date: Wed, 9-Oct-85 09:48:58 EDT
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>There is something that I have always wondered about this statistic:
>Might it really be that those people who are less healthy and so
>have a shorter life span are less likely to be married and that
>there is a must less significant cause-effect relationship to being
>married and living longer?  Remember, a statistic correlaton does not
>necessarily indicate a specific causation.

Could it be that being single is more dangerous
because single people go out more, perhaps drink/dope
more when they're out, stay out later, etc.?