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That really doesn't mean much.

Let group S be sugar eaters.

Let group A be all people w/o mental disorders.

Let group B be all people w/ mental disorders.

We have the main correlation between sugar and mental disorder:

p[A/S] <= p[B/S]

Using bayes rule:

p[A]p[S/A] <= p[B]p[S/B]

We also have "men and women with mental disorders were not more likely to consume more sugar":

p[S/A] >= p[S/B]

Comparing the inequalities gives us:

p[A] <= p[B]

So you're more likely to have a mental dissorder than not according to this study???



>p[A/S] <= p[B/S]

This doesn't follow. Just because mental disorders are correlated with sugar doesn't mean that most sugar eaters have mental disorders.




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