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From: public@wheaton (Joe Public)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,net.women
Subject: Re: Yale-Harvard marriage study
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Date: Wed, 17-Sep-86 18:52:50 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 17 18:52:50 1986
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In article <14915@onfcanim.UUCP> dave@onfcanim.UUCP writes:
>
>So, you see, the study took some statistics, simplified, extrapolated,
>and came up with a result that isn't terribly significant when you
>understand the assumptions behind it.  And then the press reported its
>conclusions, without the information that would have let you judge how
>valid the conclusions were, or even the fact that they were predictions
>not fact.
>

I thought the study included all the qualifications you mentioned, but the
press decided to ignore them (too complicated for our readers :-)) since it
made a better story that way. 

>
>More and more I'm coming to feel that I can't trust *anything* I read
>in the popular press.
>
>	Dave Martindale

I wish more people would learn to take what they read in the dailies with a
grain of salt.  For one thing, we'd have a lot less AIDS hysteria (and some
preachers would have a lot less to preach about :-)). 

				   --calvin richter--