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Yet coffee consumption is correlated with longer life. Probably the Quercetin and Trigonelline in coffee offsets the supposed damage.

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And ice cream consumption is correlated with drowning. Many times correlation just doesn't mean that much by itself.

That’s just implies that there is a common causality - in the case of ice cream and drowning, I suspect that is nice weather.

It also correlates with serial killers, because turns out no one likes to do their hobby in poor weather.

Yes, that was my point exactly. Due to nice weather, ice cream consumption and drowning begin to correlate and it's hard to draw conclusions from this correlation alone.

As an example for coffee consumption it could just be that coffee is consumed more in countries with higher living standards and higher living standards lead to longer life. Coffee might not necessarily be healthy by itself, though of course it could very well be.

I suspect it may he a correlation not a causation.

People who don't have access to Healthcare don't have the luxury of things like coffee, I bet that shows in the data.

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