RE: Re: Cohen's Fallacy

["Rad health" <healthrad@HOTMAIL.COM>]

I agree.  It is also not our job to explain your paradox.  I also agree that 

it is your job to determine the correlations and take them into account in 

the analyses.  Unfortunately, you have not attempted to determine the inter 

county correlations, but rather make assumptions about what they are.





>From: BERNARD L COHEN <blc+@pitt.edu>

>To: Rad health <healthrad@HOTMAIL.COM>

>CC: Jack_Earley@RL.GOV, radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu, motnivas@YAHOO.COM, 

>tjsav@LYCOS.COM

>Subject: RE: Re: Cohen's Fallacy

>Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 12:54:59 -0500 (EST)

>

>

>On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Rad health wrote:

>

> >

> > That is the question I have asked Dr. Cohen to explain numerous times.

> > Please provide a definitive explanation as to why the radon 

>concnetrations

> > show a rather large inverse correlation with smoking?

>

>	--It is not my responsibility to explain this, although I could

>speculate on reasons if that were important. It is not important for my

>studies. My job is to find out what the correlations are and take them

>into account in my analyses.

>





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