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<blockquote data-quote="jefe1037" data-source="post: 283907" data-attributes="member: 2290"><p>On the ops topic, I see the advantage of having broad statistical data available as being useful to medical professionals. However, any statistics can be twisted to make any point viable (my favorite from a college courese was "cities with more churches have more alcoholics" because cities with more churches have higher populations thus more people with EVERY afflicton: the stat neither establishes causality nor adresses proportions).</p><p></p><p>The big "IF" to me here isn't anonymity, but how the information will be used. I don't see the government knocking on peoples doors and taking this cigarettes and whisky away from them. As it applies to our forum, I give you an example from my family history: my grandmother smoked for several years but quit well before I was born. She was diagnosed with emphasyma later in life. "Smoking causes this" Well her medical records don't show that she grew up downwind from a lead smelt and lived near a cement factory for years. Causality between her smoking and her lung condition is far from certain.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jefe1037, post: 283907, member: 2290"] On the ops topic, I see the advantage of having broad statistical data available as being useful to medical professionals. However, any statistics can be twisted to make any point viable (my favorite from a college courese was "cities with more churches have more alcoholics" because cities with more churches have higher populations thus more people with EVERY afflicton: the stat neither establishes causality nor adresses proportions). The big "IF" to me here isn't anonymity, but how the information will be used. I don't see the government knocking on peoples doors and taking this cigarettes and whisky away from them. As it applies to our forum, I give you an example from my family history: my grandmother smoked for several years but quit well before I was born. She was diagnosed with emphasyma later in life. "Smoking causes this" Well her medical records don't show that she grew up downwind from a lead smelt and lived near a cement factory for years. Causality between her smoking and her lung condition is far from certain. [/QUOTE]
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