{"id":13,"date":"2008-01-10T09:07:05","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T09:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visaisahero.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/10\/researchers-more-likely-to-jump-to-conclusions-observation\/"},"modified":"2015-02-18T07:39:04","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T07:39:04","slug":"researchers-more-likely-to-jump-to-conclusions-observation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2008\/01\/10\/researchers-more-likely-to-jump-to-conclusions-observation\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers more likely to jump to conclusions:\u00a0Observation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/comment.straitstimes.com\/showthread.php?t=8641\">Smokers more likely to feel suicidal: Study<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A clear and alarming link between smoking and suicide&#8221;, they found. &#8220;Campaigns for reducing smoking should also point to the elevated risk of suicidality,&#8221; they say.<\/p>\n<p>Of course there is a link between smoking and suicide. There is also an alarming link between hunger and poverty, so obviously hunger causes poverty.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe it is the other way around?<br \/>\n&#8220;The more a person smoked, the likelier he or she would have suicidal thoughts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe, just maybe, it&#8217;s because suicidal people are depressed and stressed and plain smoke more?<\/p>\n<p>There are smokers out there who are rich, have fulfilling lives, happy families and meaningful relationships with those around them. Are they more likely to commit suicide because of smoking? I think not.<\/p>\n<p>There are depressed people out there who feel helpless and out-of-control of themselves, their lives and their happiness. These people are far more likely to smoke, drink and abuse drugs heavily.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure if these researchers did a study in a bar, they&#8217;d find that the heaviest drinkers have the most suicidal tendencies. Drinking more gives you suicidal tendencies then, certainly!<\/p>\n<p><b>Just because there is a co-relation between A and B does not in any way prove that A causes B. B could cause A, or A and B could both be caused by C.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Who is paying these guys? They ought to get their funding cut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smokers more likely to feel suicidal: Study &#8220;A clear and alarming link between smoking and suicide&#8221;, they found. &#8220;Campaigns for reducing smoking should also point to the elevated risk of suicidality,&#8221; they say. Of course there is a link between smoking and suicide. There is also an alarming link between&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[270,324,441,470],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-logic","tag-nicotine","tag-smoking","tag-suicide"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5gxNz-d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9266,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/9266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}