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From: chiu@princeton.UUCP (Kenneth Chiu)
Newsgroups: soc.misc,soc.women
Subject: Re: Team Sports, an observation
Message-ID: <1705@princeton.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Sep-86 10:03:51 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 26 10:03:51 1986
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In article <1079@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU> cheryl@batcomputer.UUCP (cheryl) writes:
>In article <1075@kontron.UUCP> cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
>>
>>Does this indicate that athletic women are less likely to develop
>>breast cancer?  Or is there some more subtle cause of this statistic?
>
>Does all of the statistical correlation between smoking and incidence
>of lung cancer indicate that people who smoke are more likely to get
>lung cancer?  Or is there some more subtle cause of this statistic?

Correlation and causality are not the same.  Is this person trying to be funny,
or is she just making a sarcastic remark that she realizes is actually
inaccurate, but is just highly annoyed by Clayton?
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Kenneth Chiu                                              UUCP: princeton!chiu
Princeton University Computer Science Department        BITNET: 6031801@PUCC