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Think the Answer Clear? Look Again

The New York Times Science
by Katie Hafner
August 30, 2010

The article starts with

(1) Win an Academy Award and you’re likely to live longer than had you been a runner-up.

(2) Interview for medical school on a rainy day, and your chances of being selected could fall..

Such are some of the surprising findings of Dr. Donald A. Redelmeier, a physician-researcher and perhaps the leading debunker of preconceived notions in the medical world.

Readers of Chance News will remember the item 1 was convincdenlty debunked by Peter Doyle with student Mark Mixer. Redimeir and claimed claimed to have a proof whch was accepted by the Journal accepted to proof but lateter