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Cats are Healers (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Cat people have 40% less risk of heart attack.*

Cat people are also overrepresented cohorts of wealthy people and women, two cohorts who have a much lower risk of heart attack than the most at risk cohort of poor men.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

So what you are saying is the more cats I get the richer I will be?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Correlation and Causation are just fancy-pantsy words used by experts to lie to us common folk!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

Gotta sell them all

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (3 children)

And more feminine

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

But I'll get cat hair on my programmer socks!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

You don't have to convince me, I was already sold.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

But I still have lots of cats, right?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago

Yes that's exactly how causation and correlation work, go for it!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Scientists have discovered that having more cats reduces the risk of heart attacks and increases wealth with no upper limit*

*study sponsored by toxoplasmosis foundation

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No but cats are correlated with wealth, I’m not implying any sort of causation, unlike the post lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Because they’re famously expensive to keep?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Isn't it also that pet owners in general have better health?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Possibly. It would make sense, people with poor health who tend to also be poorer financially are less likely to have the ability to take care of a pet.