Your Autistic Life FR/EN/ES<p>"This one thing may derail your shot at healthy aging, scientists say"</p><p>Even the LA Times engages in clickbaity headlines.</p><p>The scientist only found a correlation, not causation. The article even states:</p><p>"The study didn’t show that excess TV time **caused** any of the nurses to miss out on healthy aging, only that there was a significant inverse **correlation** between the two. Still, there’s good reason to suspect that their favorite sedentary behavior bore at least some of the responsibility."</p><p>(Emphasis added.)</p><p>The last sentence is just a feeble attempt at justifying their headline.</p><p>Shame on the LA Times (<span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@latimes" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>latimes</span></a></span>). Is it any mystery that every time a newspaper says "trust us!," I go 🙄.</p><p><a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/LATimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LATimes</span></a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/CorrelationIsNotCausation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorrelationIsNotCausation</span></a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/correlation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>correlation</span></a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/causation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>causation</span></a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/clickbait" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>clickbait</span></a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/newspapers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>newspapers</span></a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalism</span></a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/ShittyJournalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShittyJournalism</span></a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/trust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trust</span></a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/distrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>distrust</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2024-06-14/this-one-thing-may-derail-your-shot-at-healthy-aging-scientists-say" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">latimes.com/science/story/2024</span><span class="invisible">-06-14/this-one-thing-may-derail-your-shot-at-healthy-aging-scientists-say</span></a></p>