(February 24, 2014 at 10:34 am)TaraJo Wrote: Ok, that's true, it's not exactly a causal relationship going on, but there does seem to be a correlation. Which is a subtle difference, but it's there.
Anyway, I wonder what this will do to fundamentalist religious zealots who claim GLBT people have shorter life spans (a claim I haven't seen proven in any way, shape or form) and claim that's proof that their behavior is unnatural and unhealthy?
You think correlation and causation have only a subtle difference? The rise in AIDS deaths in the 1980's correlates with the rise in ownership of VCRs in the UK correlation yes. Causation utterly not.
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