Here’s something I know nothing about

May 24, 2016
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(This article was originally published at Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.)

Paul Campos writes:

Does it seem at all plausible that, as per the CDC, rates of smoking among people with GED certificates are double those among high school dropouts and high school graduates?

My reply: It does seem a bit odd, but I don’t know who gets GED’s. There could be correlations with age and region of the country. It’s hard to know what to do with this sort of demographically-unadjusted number.

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