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Readers of Chance News will remember that item Rodemlmeeir clained | |||
In [http://www.causeweb.org/wiki/chance/index.php/Oscar_winners_do_not_live_longer Chance News "Oscar Winners do not live longer] we discussed how the Academy Award claim was debunked first by Peter Doyle and Mark Mixer and then by [http://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/news/item/?item_id=21645 here] | |||
Redelmeier, D. A., & Singh, S. M. (2001). Survival in Academy Award-winning actors and actresses. Annals of Internal Medicine, 134, 955-962 | |||
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Think the Answer Clear? Look Again
The New York Times Science
by Katie Hafner
August 30, 2010
The article starts with
(1) Win an Academy Award and you’re likely to live longer than had you been a runner-up.
(2) Interview for medical school on a rainy day, and your chances of being selected could fall..
Such are some of the surprising findings of Dr. Donald A. Redelmeier, a physician-researcher and perhaps the leading debunker of preconceived notions in the medical world.
Readers of Chance News will remember that item Rodemlmeeir clained
In Chance News "Oscar Winners do not live longer we discussed how the Academy Award claim was debunked first by Peter Doyle and Mark Mixer and then by here
Redelmeier, D. A., & Singh, S. M. (2001). Survival in Academy Award-winning actors and actresses. Annals of Internal Medicine, 134, 955-962