• bamboo@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    While I’m not an expert in anything vaguely related, I would bet that those “adverse life/childhood experiences” have more of a causal effect on lifespan than the abortions.

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      10 months ago

      Yes, confounders are variables which influence the outcome in a causal model but can’t be separated out