• Septimaeus@infosec.pub
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    I don’t envy researchers tasked with validating common sense conclusions, but someone has to do it

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      “do people with substance addictions also have other substances addictions” seems like a REALLY hard thing to control for too.

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        The paper doesn’t make any claims about causal relationships, it only looks at co-occurance. So no need to account for confounding factors.