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Monday, July 8, 2013

Sugar, smoking and statistics


My Mum ate a bag of sugar a day and lived until she was 112 years old.
- maryh , ipswich, United Kingdom, 08/7/2013 09:50


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Survey of one. How many others of a population of 1000 lived to the same age? My parents survived World War Two. Does not prove war is safe. A better test is to check a thousand people. A scientific survey needs a control group. Even if what your mother did is right for you, because you inherited your mother's cast iron DNA, doesn't mean it applies to 999 other people whose parents died.

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