On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:42 PM, ss <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 Apr 2011 9:46:40 am Udhay Shankar N wrote:
>> I am posting teh entire long piece below as I think it is an important
>> discussion to have - I wanted the opinions of the folks here, some of
>> whom have been saying similar things for many years.
>>
>> Udhay
>>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sugar-t.html?_r=2&page
>> wanted=all
> The problem with the article is
I'm amused that it was at this point that I knew that Shiv was the
author, without having to look at the headers!
> ... Americans ...
I was amused at your claim about it being American centric given how
many times it referenced other cultures as direct evidence. Inuit,
Japanese, Korean, UK and "The Seven Countries Study."
>... are fat and eat sugar ... However Indians with far less sugar in their
>regular diets and
> no corn syrup also become fat.
This is not up to your usual standards Shiv. A implies B does not mean
that B implies A. Even if "eating too much sugar" means "you will get
fat" it does that not mean that "you are fat" implies "you eat too
much sugar." It might be interesting to look at the Bayesian inference
of P("eats a lot of sugar"|"is fat") in Indian populations. To do that
though, we'd need some numbers around your claim that Indians are fat
with less sugar in their regular diets. Do you have any real evidence,
the kind with numbers, to support this claim?
-- Charles "The Plural of Anecdote is not Evidence"
