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on Saturday November 12 2016, @05:03PM
from the it-was-pretty-good-then-too dept.
from the it-was-pretty-good-then-too dept.
People who were in the scouts or guides in childhood have better mental health in later life, a study suggests.
Analysis of a study of 10,000 people found ex-members were 15% less likely than other adults to suffer anxiety or mood disorders at the age of 50.
Researchers believe it could be the lessons in resilience and resolve that such organisations offer that has a lasting positive impact.
The researchers were from Edinburgh and Glasgow universities.
They looked at data from a lifelong study of almost 10,000 people from across the UK who were born in November 1958, known as the National Child Development Study.
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Scouts and Guides Provide 'Mental Health Boost for Life'
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 12 2016, @09:03PM
BLAH BLAH BLAH. Irrelevant.
You cannot draw causative conclusions from this study. ESPECIALLY this sort study.
Certainly not the one claimed.
If you don't understand why, there is not point explaining this further because you are a moron.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 12 2016, @10:04PM
That's great Jim, but that doesn't answer my charges.
There's inductive and deductive reasoning, not to mention reductionist fallacy which the mental midgets (god damn midgets are on the brain today) who cluck correlation is not causation fall prey to even as they are making the charge of questionable cause (improperly I might add, as your bountiful counter-arguments as to the flaws are no where to be found).
I mean hell, can you even describe the mechanism for depression? Then it must not exist.
This is what the learned would call weak evidence, but not the absence of evidence, which should merit further study so the causation(s) (if it exists) can be identified.
But many an internet expert who think that something as complex as the brain can be surmised in C!=C do adore how cogent and incisive they are even when staring down 10,000 years of human institutions that follow essentially the same pattern as the scouts while people in isolation tend to go mad.
there is not point explaining this further because you are a moron
More likely you lack the capacity to explain it because you don't understand it yourself.
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Saturday November 12 2016, @10:15PM
The correlation between correlation and causation historically does not imply causation ;)
There's a correlation between every event that actually happened, by definition, but very few of those involve causation, for interesting definitions of causation.
When you base your system of beliefs around correlation = causation, you get religion (I prayed to God for a month, and my wish was granted!). When you base your system of beliefs around correlation != causation, you get science. One of these has brought more social advance in a thousand years than the other has in ten thousand.
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