The Importance of Controlling for Variables

The idea that we could just cleanly say this is straightforwardly because of vegetarianism or because of a fully plant based diet feels like, again, I'm not sure that we've eliminated everything else just yet. A lot of the studies on vegetarians versus non vegetarians do use statistical controls. Very few of the studies that I found controlled for health insurance status. That seems like a big one, dude. You know what I mean? Yeah.