12 May 2008

Where's the proof?

Broun (GA10) | News | Congressman Broun Introduces Anti-Pornography Legislation
Allowing the sale of pornography on military bases has harmed military men and women by: escalating the number of violent, sexual crimes; feeding a base addiction; eroding the family as the primary building block of society; and denigrating the moral standing of our troops both here and abroad.

I'd be really interested in his data showing causation within a statistically significant range of probability. I think you can show some correlation... maybe... if you stretch the numbers.
But can you show causation? That's a very, very high hurdle to clear. Good luck showing a statistically significant measure of causation, no matter how you control for confounding or mediating variables.

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