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A comment on E-cigarette use as a predictor of cigarette smoking. Parent comment

Re:E-cigarette use as a predictor of cigarette smoking by innocentfelon on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @11:21PM (#17975710)
The term for this situation is ”streetlighting”, where the possible reigns over the correct.

“It’s dark in that alley. I’d never find my keys there.”

Doesn’t matter if it’s extremely difficult to get good data here. What matters is we can’t substitute bad data if that’s all we can come up with.

And although I stated it as smokers lying, the implication is that the nonsmokers are lying (by claiming to smoke).

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Re:E-cigarette use as a predictor of cigarette smoking by sigmaprimus on Thursday September 13, 2018 @05:32AM (#17977227)
It is my understanding that most surveys will include a margin of error. This story does not mention this, I wonder if this is just slight of hand while the east coast of the US falls into the sea?!
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Re:E-cigarette use as a predictor of cigarette smoking by sigmaprimus on Thursday September 13, 2018 @05:37AM (#17977246)
Or maybe the cable news sites are distracting me from this?!?
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