Economia Everywhere!!

Um blog que cumpriu seu papel de divulgar economia por muito tempo.

sexta-feira, abril 09, 2004

Excelente link! Será colocado como link fixo, junto ao "junk science"!!!


Veja a falácia da anorexia no número de ago/2001!!!! Amazing! (notem o uso do inglês, claramente mostrando que estou hipnotizado pelos norte-americanos malvados :D)

Here is a lovely silly season story from the New Scientist that was picked up widely across the media, which illustrates one of the more common statistical fallacies

June babies have higher risk of anorexia

19:00 08 August 01
Alison Motluk


Anorexic women are most likely to have been born in the spring or early summer, reports a researcher in Scotland. The finding raises the possibility that a common winter infection, such as flu, may predispose an unborn baby to the condition.

"It's not the whole answer," says John Eagles of the Royal Cornhill Hospital in Aberdeen. But it could be an unrecognised cause of anorexia nervosa, which affects around one per cent of girls in the US.

posted by Prof Shikida at 3:58 PM

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