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by MarkMc 5167 days ago
Yes, being a man gives you more chance of dying, but this study showed the increased risk of sitting even when taking this into account. Their result summary says they adjusted for factors including "sex, age, education, urban/rural residence, physical activity, body mass index, smoking status, self-rated health, and disability": http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/172/6/494
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Rage 5167 days ago
okay, but still, why ? Statistics aren't reliable for they can state anything.
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aGHz 5167 days ago
What you're showing here is a very typical fundamental misunderstanding of what statistics is. It's not that they can "state anything", it's that everything they state comes with a confidence interval, so they are -probabilistically- very reliable actually.
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Rage 5166 days ago
Hu, i meant, you can make statistics "state" anything you want is you twist them right.

BUT STILL, WHY ARE WE DYIN YOUNGER IFF SEATED OFTEN ?

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