Re: OT: consuming dark chocolate linked to reduced risk of type 2 diabetes?

On 10/12/2024 14:16, Jan Panteltje wrote:

PS
the reason I put a question mark in the subject line is that I really hope
those guys are not confusing cause and effect.
There was this German prof who showed his students that in the same village that had the most storks there were also the most child births.
So, warned his students that statistics is dangerous and that that does not prove storks bring kids.
I could imagine people with some sort of leaning towards diabetes having less desire for chocolate?
It all depends.

My favourite in that line of correlation vs causation is length of name vs faintness for asteroids.
Early ones got Greek and Roman Gods names Iris, Juno, Ceres, Vesta etc.
More recently they are numbered and then named for famous(ish) people:
2675 Tolkien  (unusually short)
4015 Wilson–Harrington (unusually long for a low numbered one)
50719 Elizabethgriffin
Increasingly they just have discovery numbers and a set of orbital elements saved just in case someone wants to observe them again.
Finding Earth orbit crossing ones has become something of a growth industry lately since they could pose an existential threat to us.
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Martin Brown