http://mindhacks.com/2007/04/09/violence-linked-to-price-of-beer/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Fri, 17 May 2013 22:36:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2007/04/09/violence-linked-to-price-of-beer/#comment-8708 Sat, 07 Aug 2010 09:49:43 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2007/04/09/violence-linked-to-price-of-beer/#comment-8708 I’m fed up with the price of alcohol being such a big issue with the rise in the social decay that is rapidly becoming more prevalent in British society. We should be looking more in depth as to why normal social rules are degrading so rapidly.

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2007/04/09/violence-linked-to-price-of-beer/#comment-7442 Sun, 29 Apr 2007 22:07:33 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2007/04/09/violence-linked-to-price-of-beer/#comment-7442 This article makes the common mistake of taking statistical correlation to be synonomous with causation.
Beer Price and Violence may be both responding to the same factor, or the relationship between the two may be in fact very weak but falsely strengthened by a lurking variable.

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