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| Why anecdotes shouldn't be trusted. (xkcd #842: Mark) |
For a long time, I kept my cell phone in my left pants pocket. After some time, I began noticing that the muscle just underneath it would occasionally twitch.
Feeling curious, I moved my phone to my right pocket. After a while, I noticed that the twitches in the left muscle weren’t happening anymore. And just recently (about 6 months later) I noticed some twitches occurring under my right pocket.
Ah-ha! you might think. Long-term exposure to cell phone radiation has some effect on muscles!
Well… no. It’s a curious correlation at best, but there are a number of problems with making any sort of conclusion from this single experience:
