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Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan

I saw what they did, but if you're using obituary mentions as your data, it's going to have some extreme selection bias. It's not a good way to get reliable data. It's flawed from the start.

As for the other links...

WebMD? Not a great site in the first place, but I cannot see the study they are talking about. next...

AAU is just linking the first study that I pointed out problems with. next...

Psychology today is pop science, and many of the sources are books, not specifically peer-reviewed studies. Yet even so, I think you'd better read that one again because he's making the case that secularism is actually beneficial for longevity in many examples, and if you read it all, it's hard to be sure of any affiliation between religions and longevity.

From the article:


Again, you need better data if you're going to make a claim like that.

Selection bias. People eliminating the info they don't want to hear....you don't say.