Lies, lies, statistics, and lies

[Jantar]

....statistical correllation can be incorrect...it can also be correct....

Quite correct, and also quite wrong. In any branch of science there is an overiding principal: "Correlation does not equal Causation".

It may do so, but until the mechanism is shown, then the null hypophesis must apply.

[yod]

exactly...but in this case we dont know whether the mechanism exists or not so assumptions either way are unfounded (from our point of view)

[slinky]

I've got contacts in the stats departments... I've got pros helping me talk out my arse

/edit: 93 blades kick arse

oh lucky you! Im just talking complete shit and possibly said something intelligent.

cheers! its a great bike, but not worth the trouble of shipping to Auz.

[imdying]

Stick the kms and a rough price in your sig

[Wolf]

I thought all those deaths were supposed to be caused by passive smoking because someone once saw a person having a cigarette 100m away and so their life was prematurely curtailed.

Why are the papers pronouncing heresies against the Gospel-according-to-ASH.

The Harald and the Dompost will surely be invaded by ASH Inquisitors and put to The Question...

Not to mention all the shit they're going to get from the factory cartels and the automotive industry for unfairly blaming them when it has been statistically proven that the deaths are caused by evil smokers and not the benevolent industries...