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Re:Walking Slower? Why Your Ears, Not Your Knees, Might Be t... by adammarples on Monday May 11, 2026 @11:26AM (#48096286)
It is not a spurious correlation, the two statistics are causally related. However, individual cases may vary, which is a problem with looking at aggregate statistics in general, and which is not addressed by your spurious correlations accusation.
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Re:Walking Slower? Why Your Ears, Not Your Knees, Might Be t... by cassianoleal on Monday May 11, 2026 @01:27PM (#48097925)
Fair point. I still imagine there's a larger deviation between the aging population and the slowed down population than most people think - and especially large enough to dispel the idea that we must stigmatise people who slow down because of it.
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