RE: You're unhinged
April 26, 2013 at 9:22 am
(This post was last modified: April 26, 2013 at 9:24 am by L.A.F..)
First of all, thank you for the link.
Next, I want to stress a part of the article you posted:
"The study looked only at the correlation between beliefs and mental health and not at causality, so the study's take-away message is subject to interpretation."
(...) "We don't know whether it was the poorer mental health (anxiety, paranoia) that caused subjects to perceive God as punitive, or whether it was the view of God as punitive that caused the poor mental health," Dr. Robert Koenig (...) told The Huffington Post in an email."
In other words, I do think that the phrase 'correlation does not imply causation' can be used here as a critical side note.
Next, I want to stress a part of the article you posted:
"The study looked only at the correlation between beliefs and mental health and not at causality, so the study's take-away message is subject to interpretation."
(...) "We don't know whether it was the poorer mental health (anxiety, paranoia) that caused subjects to perceive God as punitive, or whether it was the view of God as punitive that caused the poor mental health," Dr. Robert Koenig (...) told The Huffington Post in an email."
In other words, I do think that the phrase 'correlation does not imply causation' can be used here as a critical side note.
