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A comment on Persistent Associations Between Prenatal Exposure to Phthalates and Child IQ.

Re:Persistent Associations Between Prenatal Exposure to Phth... by ChikkaChiChi on Friday December 12, 2014 @04:44PM (#8742894)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc. Everything I've read indicates that this warrants more investigation, but causality has not yet been assigned.
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Re:Persistent Associations Between Prenatal Exposure to Phth... by devilsdounut on Friday December 12, 2014 @05:08PM (#8743007)
Pretty big confidence intervals, unclear what the true test space is. I'm just going to leave this [1] here.

[1] http://www.tylervigen.com/

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Re:Persistent Associations Between Prenatal Exposure to Phth... by gohrt on Friday December 12, 2014 @06:26PM (#8743326)
That's what "association" means.
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Re:Persistent Associations Between Prenatal Exposure to Phth... by duaneb on Friday December 12, 2014 @07:02PM (#8743442)
To people trained in the scientific process, maybe, but most people will hear an implied causality.
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Re:Persistent Associations Between Prenatal Exposure to Phth... by clarkmoody on Friday December 12, 2014 @07:14PM (#8743477)
Let's just hope that we don't get knee-jerk draconian regulatory/legislative response.
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