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Re:Association Between Sauna Bathing and All-Cause Mortality... by maj0rhn on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @01:57PM (#9108720)
$80 per month is a lot of money for most people. It's like buying a new pair of running shoes every month. Quite a luxury. This in itself separates groups of people. Reasoning stands.
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Re:Association Between Sauna Bathing and All-Cause Mortality... by hammerandtongs on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @02:05PM (#9108782)
"""saunas are even more prevalent in Scandinavia. You should rethink your reasoning."""
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Re:Association Between Sauna Bathing and All-Cause Mortality... by maj0rhn on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @02:32PM (#9108975)
The cost of access to saunas is not zero in money, and not zero in time. This in itself creates differences between groups, which is why randomized trials are far superior to case-control or observational studies. This is so well established in medicine that there is no cause to rethink the reasoning.
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Re:Association Between Sauna Bathing and All-Cause Mortality... by mkempe on Thursday February 26, 2015 @09:04AM (#9112509)
Based on your comments I gather you have never been in Finland. So you know close to nothing about social mores and structures in that country. Your comments are noise, not even wrong.
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