"Don Freeman" ) writes:
"Keenan Wellar" wrote in message
...
in article , Dave Manby at
wrote on 8/10/04 4:31 AM:

Statistically lying in bed is by far the most dangerous thing you can do
as the majority of people die in bed!

I think perhaps "cause of death" and "location of death" are getting
confused here!

His point exactly, gaving a very good example of how faulty cause-and-effect
reasoning can lead to invalid conclusions.

Are we speculating that the statistics on paddling deaths are actually
statistics on in-kayak cardiac arrests, strokes, aneruisms, chokings, and
drug overdoses?

There's a subject line I'd like to see in this newsgroup. Kayaker dies of drug
overdose in Big Hole on Middle Fork of Upper Zi****ippi.


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