Re: Gender determination (wasOT: Re: What? The clean-shaven outnumber the bearded?)

Roger Mills scripsit:

> My psych prof's favorite examples of a spurious statistical correlation:
> the softness of asphalt in NYC streets / infant and elderly death rate.
My dad's boss once wrote a letter to some magazine that had published a
country-by-country comparison of smoking rates and lung cancer rates (the
more smoking, the more lung cancer, not surprisingly).  He presented them
with a table showing smoking rates vs. cholera rates for various countries:
the more smoking, the less cholera.  (Probably wouldn't work today.)

There is also the correlation between one's age and the size of the universe.
This is different from the other two, in that one cannot trace even an
indirect connection.

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John Cowan
        jcowan@reutershealth.com
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