tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4274782648018949782.post9118519962082752827..comments2023-06-25T01:41:08.100-07:00Comments on What are the chances?: More germs = less disease?Alan Salzberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07028973293777181756noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4274782648018949782.post-49316381973556986252010-03-16T05:13:30.595-07:002010-03-16T05:13:30.595-07:00If you read the paper (http://rspb.royalsocietypub...If you read the paper (http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2009/12/08/rspb.2009.1795.short), you can see that they base their conclusions upon the statistical association between infections and CRP levels within the Phillipines cohort:<br /><br /><i>...higher levels of microbial exposure in infancy were associated with lower CRP. These associations were independent of socioeconomic status, measures of current body fat and other health behaviours.</i><br /><br />The comparison with the US is just the University's press officer attempting to make the story newsworthy.Epiphenomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05420404206189437710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4274782648018949782.post-62358404070401237282010-03-14T16:18:42.272-07:002010-03-14T16:18:42.272-07:00Came here via your brother's genome blog. Mayb...Came here via your brother's genome blog. Maybe this is of interest to you: I have put one of the most comprehensive link lists for hundreds of thousands of statistical sources and indicators (economics, demographics, health etc.) on my blog: <a href="http://crisismaven.wordpress.com/references/" rel="nofollow">Statistics Reference List</a>. And what I find most fascinating is how data can be visualised nowadays with the graphical computing power of modern PCs, as in many of the dozens of examples in these <a href="http://crisismaven.wordpress.com/references/references-subjects-covered/data-structuring/data-visualisation-references/" rel="nofollow">Data Visualisation References</a>. If you miss anything that I might be able to find for you or if you yourself want to share a resource, please leave a comment.CrisisMavenhttp://crisismaven.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4274782648018949782.post-64457225215177966942010-01-17T18:10:48.663-08:002010-01-17T18:10:48.663-08:00Found out the chinese one is an ad--having nothing...Found out the chinese one is an ad--having nothing to do with probability!Alan Salzberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07028973293777181756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4274782648018949782.post-72508858365496102132010-01-16T15:39:05.997-08:002010-01-16T15:39:05.997-08:00Not sure what the chinese one says...anyone care t...Not sure what the chinese one says...anyone care to translate?Alan Salzberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07028973293777181756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4274782648018949782.post-51647612976580642842010-01-16T00:37:45.074-08:002010-01-16T00:37:45.074-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4274782648018949782.post-24230745529264632622009-12-10T13:05:37.948-08:002009-12-10T13:05:37.948-08:00Combining this study and the following article, ma...Combining this study and the following article, maybe letting kids use germ infested cell phones is actually good for them: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Health/story?id=2273311.<br /><br />Sounds like survivor bias. Like when people will say, "We didn't use car seats when I was a kid, and we grew up fine!". Well, those of you that survived grew up fine.Jonathan Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17430743891990210766noreply@blogger.com