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To: tejek who wrote (541536)	1/6/2010 11:57:43 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1578008

when, in fact, the quality of health care is very important in terms of life expectancy? I have a feeling you don't know much about correlation vs. causation, and more importantly, about the concept of covariance, which has a particularly important role in this subject. However, as a starting point, I'd just suggest to you that there is a much stronger correlation between obesity and life expectancy than "quality of health care" and life expectancy. When studying correlation one has to apply common sense to avoid getting trapped in these areas. A much more meaningful measure of the quality of health care is survival time after diagnosis of a terminal disease. Or the extent of eradication of common illnesses. These make great liberal talking points because no liberal in history truly understood statistics. You can't understand statistics and be a liberal. Not possible. I've known many liberals and never met one who understood anything beyond descriptive statistics, and not really that.