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19 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 18 October 2007 02:08AM

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Comment author: Robin_Hanson2 18 October 2007 11:39:35AM 3 points [-]

Toby, the question is of course what is the evidence that at least "a tenth of this increase is due to aid," since the correlation analyses look bad.

Nica, they did not publish the part of the Framington Heart Study relating diet to heart disease. And in the RAND experiment, the initially poor and sick did not do better on average with free medicine.