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army1987 comments on Taking "correlation does not imply causation" back from the internet - Less Wrong Discussion

41 Post author: sixes_and_sevens 03 October 2012 12:18PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 04 October 2012 12:52:52AM *  1 point [-]

Why? (EDIT: I guess people in warmer countries tend to drink more water but to have worse health; is that what you're thinking about?)

Comment author: Decius 05 October 2012 02:33:31AM *  2 points [-]

Because babies drink less than adults. The lifetime average water consumption of people who die as infants is tiny compared to the lifetime average of adults.

In other words, death prevents drinking water.

Comment author: timtyler 05 October 2012 10:17:18AM *  0 points [-]

Oops - sign mix-up in my mind when I wrote this. I meant the opposite - that I guessed that water consumption rate is negatively correlated with mortality rate.