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Usually the variables correlated with socio-economic status.

The vast majority of epidemiological papers are basically correlations with socio economic status.

There should be a public science communication standard that prevents journalists from misleadingly presenting correlation as causation. It is far too common.

I don't see where in the article they imply causation. They use the words "linked" and "associated." In fact, they specifically call out they don't have a causal explanation.

>As an observational study, the research was not able to determine what is causing the link between housing tenure and biological ageing, and the DNA samples analysed so far were only from white, European householders.

It's not only the journalists that are in fault here.

There's a huge academic industrial complex generating this type of crap.

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