Talk:Dairy cattle with names produce more milk, according to new study

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I CREATED this wacky but scientific dairy article. Please help in publishing it. If sorcery is used in cows, what will happen, it must be studied. Cheers.--Florentino Floro (talk) 11:52, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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[1] Cows with Names Make More Milk [2] [3]Pull the udder one? Calling cows names 'makes them produce more milk' [4]Of course farmers name their cows! Just not after their wives [5]Oh, Bessie! Name your cow, get more milk--Florentino Floro (talk) 14:23, 29 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Misleading...[edit]

It doesn't seem that the study claims to have established the naming of a cow as a *cause* of higher milk production, but simply a *correlation* between more milk and names. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation

Although this may raise some very interesting questions about links between animal health and psychological states, it frankly doesn't seem very scientific.