Honey, it is because I love you that I am ordering you to mop the floor and make me a pie. It's for your own good, really.
posted by Greg | 9:38 AM
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Michelle would like to remind everyone that CORRELATION DOES NOT IMPLY CAUSATION.
While I agree with Michelle on an academic level, at some point--I wonder where we begin splitting hairs. Perfect example... it was only a few months after Bob (my brother-in-law) had died, widowing my sister and leaving my nieces fatherless... And I was still very much trying to figure out all the “how could this happen” and “why would this happen”... Then I had a conversation with G. Warren, who is an actuary. He simply asked his age, his smoking status, and his estimated weight. He then said something that made an infinite amount of sense to me--something that made sense of the whole situation, actually; and it was something to the effect of, “Well, 3.4% of his demographic is going to die from a coronary; he was one of them. Unlucky.”
So while correlations do not imply causality, why take that risk? My vote is to our wives in that “lucky” portion of their demographic; and if that entails mopping, scrubbing carrots, and making us pie... then we shall be forced to suffer through it. Hey sweetie, you missed a spot.
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