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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (33951)7/2/1999 7:22:00 PM
From: A.J. Mullen  Read Replies (1) of 152472
 
I should have explained the exp. in more detail. No one was using a cell phone. Volunteers wore a cell phonestrapped to their head. The subjects were asked to make some starightforward judgements as quickly as possible. They were unaware as to whether the phone was emitting any waves at anytime. Reaction times tended to be faster for those who were subject to the RF.

Whether or not they had a dummy or real phone was assigned randomly. There was no pre-selection that can occur. The most egregious example of spurious conclusion from a correlation I heard was on NPR. It was suggested that left-handers had a lower life-expectancy than right-handers. They discussed the problems of living in a world designed for others (righthanders). The trouble was they calculated survival rates by comparing the frequency of lefties from one age group to another. There are fewer older lefties than younger lefties, and they assumed the difference was in mortality rates. Of course, in the fifties there was much more pressure to conform, so more people who might have been lefties ended up righties. Thus the world may be
becoming increasingly sinister, but it's not necessarily a story of morbidity.
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