tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5029133780587641804.post6944148584496230129..comments2023-07-31T04:21:41.321-07:00Comments on Stat Girl Skewers the News: If you get divorced, your kids are 2x as likely to have a stroke...If you got divorced in the 1940s!!!!!Statgirl Tells The Truthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16645482865225283490noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5029133780587641804.post-58673951994715746332010-12-06T08:17:23.341-08:002010-12-06T08:17:23.341-08:00Catherina,
Excellent point. Without the ...Catherina,<br /> Excellent point. Without the rigors of peer review, conclusions can't be drawn. I still think that so many conditions were different for children of the Depression and WWII, that we, as consumers, should not concern themselves with this headline at all.<br />SGStatgirl Tells The Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16645482865225283490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5029133780587641804.post-66367054895313790532010-12-06T01:02:22.570-08:002010-12-06T01:02:22.570-08:00I think it is really difficult to say anything abo...I think it is really difficult to say anything about this news snippet at all - to be fair to Babycenter, a lot of news outlets picked this one up. The MAIN problem with the "news" is that they are based on a conference presentation:<br /><br />SOURCES: Esme Fuller-Thomson, M.D., professor and Sandra Rotman Chair, faculties of social work, medicine and nursing, University of Toronto; Kirk Garratt, M.D., clinical director, interventional cardiovascular research, Lenox Hill Hospital, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Systems, New York City; Nov. 22, 2010, presentation, Gerontological Society of America's annual meeting, New Orleans<br /><br />So this is NOT a peer reviewed paper - we have no way of controlling for the quality of the data, we do not know how strong the effect is they measure. Therefore, it should not have been reported by the media.<br /><br />Let's wait for the paper, shall we?Catherinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580939201909356691noreply@blogger.com