Iceland radically cut teenage drug use

Re:Iceland radically cut teenage drug use by cortesoft on Saturday March 14, 2020 @12:33PM (#22576528)

While the data might not be ‘just’ caused by random variance, it provides little evidence that there is something more going on than just randomness.

You have no particular reason to study those cases more than anything else, since the data we have does not suggest that there is anything actually going on.

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Re:Iceland radically cut teenage drug use by wolco on Saturday March 14, 2020 @01:10PM (#22576810)

Things are not as simple as one or the other.

The uneven spread of heavy industry creates pockets where cancer rates are higher becausw of environmental factors.

Random variance is responsible at a micro-level but at a macro level the trend still holds true.

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Re:Iceland radically cut teenage drug use by cortesoft on Saturday March 14, 2020 @04:52PM (#22578579)

I wasn't making any claim about the actual causes... I was simply stating that the statistical effect you see can be completely explained by random variance, so you can't use the result as an argument for a cause. You have to search elsewhere for that evidence.

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