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Tuesday, August 8, 2006 12:00 AM

Music makes you have sex and be sexist

The question we keep on asking: What is music doing to kids today?
Rebecca Traister

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  • Tuesday, August 8, 2006 02:40 PM

    Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics

    As others have mentioned, equating correlation with causation is specious. This is a totally amateur mistake for researchers to make and for the media to propagate, considering that it's pretty much the first lesson you learn in Statistics 101. I'm not a fan of sexually degrading music, but I can't take statistically-unsound studies seriously.

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