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Originally Posted by blankall
Most research shows that religious people live longer than non-religious people by a significant margin (4 years):
https://www.livescience.com/62809-re...longevity.html
You can't conclude that religion has overall negative effects. The solution isn't to ban religion, but instead just to simply enforce laws. We already have laws that prevent people from denying medical treatment to children having seizures. Just enforce those. |
Holy crap...
You know, if anyone bothered to check methodology, they might find a significant flaw or two.
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.Study 1 Method
Sample
The first study used the obituaries posted on the Des Moines Register from January 1, 2012, to February 29, 2012. Basic death announcements that did not contain the person’s age at the time of death or any information about what they did while they were alive were not included in our sample, resulting in 505 obituaries for analysis. Our stop rule for sampling was the end of 2 months, which we estimated would give us between 500 and 1,500 obituaries, which would have been consistent with the sample size in epidemiological studies on religion and health
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If your only sample for this are mid-western folks who are all of the same generation, then any single thing you derive from that is only applicable to that tiny group of octogenarians from Iowa.
If you're going to make a huge claim like "religion helps you live longer" you're going to need a better test for that claim.