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arrow-up1508arrow-down1external-linkTIL owning a dog was associated with a 24% lower risk of dying from all causes over the course of 10 yearswww.nytimes.comCarawou@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-215 days agomessage-square102linkfedilink
minus-squareCatoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up72·15 days agoI bet it’s a mix of walking more and them making you happier.
minus-squaredriving_crooner@lemmy.eco.brlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up58·15 days agoI bet is all the assassins the dog repeal everyday without the owner knowing
minus-squarethe_crotch@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·15 days agoIs that what she was barking at? Now I’m sorry I told her to shut up
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24arrow-down7·15 days agoI bet it’s a mix of being younger and having more money.
minus-squareFundMECFS@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-215 days agoExactly this. The news loves this kind of stuff. [Thing Associated with not being poor or chronically ill is Linked to Thing associated with not being poor or chronically ill] And then they love the narrative that [thing that’s hard to afford] is actually the reason not just a correlate.
minus-squareCethin@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·15 days agoYeah, as the other comment says, these are almost always correlations, not causations. Poor people are almost certainly less likely to own a dog. I’m sure the exercise helps, but I’d bet on it not being the largest factor.
minus-squarepet the cat, walk the dog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·15 days agoSome people also just hold on to life until their dog dies of old age.
I bet it’s a mix of walking more and them making you happier.
I bet is all the assassins the dog repeal everyday without the owner knowing
Is that what she was barking at? Now I’m sorry I told her to shut up
This guy dogs
I bet it’s a mix of being younger and having more money.
Exactly this.
The news loves this kind of stuff.
[Thing Associated with not being poor or chronically ill is Linked to Thing associated with not being poor or chronically ill]
And then they love the narrative that [thing that’s hard to afford] is actually the reason not just a correlate.
Yeah, as the other comment says, these are almost always correlations, not causations. Poor people are almost certainly less likely to own a dog. I’m sure the exercise helps, but I’d bet on it not being the largest factor.
Some people also just hold on to life until their dog dies of old age.