Monday, April 03, 2006

While we like to focus on questionable conclusions based on unproven correlations around here,

any statistical monkeybusiness is fair game.

For the cave dwellers, let me summarize the situation: numerous studies have indicated that moderate drinking is beneficial to one's health. For years now, those of us who are teetotallers have had to endure jibes and derision, but in our hearts we knew that one day we would be vindicated. That day has come.

Now a new study (a meta study - a study of studies, no less!) has contradicted prior claims, but it has done so by specifically pointing out which error the prior studies had committed that led them to make such crazy claims:
The common error was to lump into the group of "abstainers" people who were once drinkers but had quit.

You know, I actually kind of like saying "I told you so."

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