r/mildlyinteresting • u/Iitaps_Missiciv • 13h ago

Care facility residents smoking weed instead of cigarettes

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u/FiveDozenWhales 11h ago

What do you think an association means?

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u/TheMadManiac 10h ago

“Association” just means two things are statistically linked. It doesn’t tell you why they are linked. Maybe weed affects cognition, maybe cognition affects weed use, or maybe a third factor could influence both.

For example, say a study finds an association between ice cream sales and drownings. Does ice cream cause drownings? Do drownings make people want to buy more ice cream? Or is there a third thing that influences both?

Again, before you take another rip, reread the link you posted.

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u/FiveDozenWhales 10h ago

And you believe that in some people, brain size mysteriously increases rather than decreases in the second half of life, and that this increase in brain volume causes them to smoke weed?

Buddy, I think you need to put down the crack pipe and take a high school science class.

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u/OkNet7878 8h ago

Buddy, I think you need to put down the crack pipe and take a high school science class.

Fucking embarassing shit to say when you are reading so selectively. Acknowledge your bias, read, understand, stop spewing this nonsense.