AIDS, Leukemia and Potatoes

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Data Rider - 18 Apr 2008 23:41 GMT

AIDS and leukemia are opposite diseases: AIDS is caused by
too few white blood cells, while leukemia and lymphoma are
caused by too many. With that in mind, consider the following
statistics from data-rider.org

The 25 US states with the highest potato consumption rates have
an AIDS rate 117% lower than the other 25 states. The odds of
that happening by chance are about 7752 to 1 against.

Those states also have a leukemia rate 7.5% higher with odds of about
762 to 1, and a lymphoma rate 8% higher with odds of about 708 to 1.

These numbers argue (but don't prove) that potatoes increase white blood
cell counts. Has anyone ever noticed this association before? If not, I'd
like to see a doctor prove or disprove the hypothesis with some blood
testing.
Potatoes might actually be a treatment for AIDS, and a contraindicated food
for leukemia and lymphoma.

The web site mentioned above is a non-focused health study that found this
association by serendipity among the 9000+ associations measured. It also
found a strong association between AIDS and sunburns, and a few other
factors.

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Martin - 19 Apr 2008 00:22 GMT

>AIDS and leukemia are opposite diseases: AIDS is caused by
>too few white blood cells, while leukemia and lymphoma are
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>The 25 US states with the highest potato consumption rates have
>an AIDS rate 117% lower than the other 25 states.

How do these 25 US states manage to have a negative number of AIDS
cases?

>The odds of that happening by chance are about 7752 to 1 against.

I'll give you much better odds than that.

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Data Rider - 19 Apr 2008 03:32 GMT

> >The 25 US states with the highest potato consumption rates have
> >an AIDS rate 117% lower than the other 25 states.
>
> How do these 25 US states manage to have a negative number of AIDS
> cases?

I see what you mean, and thanks for pointing it out. That number is only
valid
when the stats are quoted the other way around. Let me rephrase:

The 25 states with the lowest potato consumption rates have an AIDS rate
117% higher.

or

The 25 US states with the highest potato consumption rates have
an AIDS rate 40.1% of the other 25 states.

Thanks, Martin. Friday night with a couple of drinks in me, and now I have
to
rewrite the procedure that outputs that number. It's all your fault! ;-)

Brad.

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