Re:As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick
by iamdbtoo on Thursday June 23, 2022 @02:01PM
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> That's because the existence of outliers doesn't disprove the existence of a trend.
Yeah, exactly. Either way it proves nothing about a person or their life.
Re:As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick
by margalabargala on Thursday June 23, 2022 @04:39PM
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It means the person you originally replied to was correct to call it a "danger", because while it doesn't preclude the possibility of success as you noted, it does make it less likely for a given individual.
Re:As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick
by iamdbtoo on Thursday June 23, 2022 @04:54PM
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No, it doesn't. It just proves the whole point is meaningless. There are successes and failures in both weed users and non-weed users, so you can't use that as a variable for anything.
Interepting it that way just always casts judgement on the user.
Re:As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick
by margalabargala on Thursday June 23, 2022 @05:47PM
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> There are successes and failures in both weed users and non-weed users, so you can't use that as a variable for anything.
That's not how that works. The existence of both successes and failures in weed users does not prevent a comparison of the rates of successes and failures between weed users and non-weed-users.
Making the above comparison and noting that successes per capita are lower in weed users of an otherwise identical demographic doesn't cast judgement on anyone.
Saying that there are successful daily cannabis users and therefore chronic cannabis use doesn't have negative effects on one's brain, is similar to saying that you're holding a snowball and therefore global warming doesn't exist.