Comment on Correlation implies causation

• Abyssian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  But it really doesn’t.

  You could replace number of data centers with total number of Taylor Swift songs released and get that same idea. Taylor Swift music existing causes dizziness, and it just be stopped.

  Or you could replace number of data centers with “Sean Connery alive?” and decide dizziness has been going up since he died.

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Eh…

    It doesn’t get anything similar to the same result.

    trends.google.com.br/trends/explore?date=today+5-…

    You are trying to say it’s a coincidence, and that’s probably correct. But it’s perfectly possible that the interest in datacenters leads to an interest in dizziness, or that they are related by some hidden variable.

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    • Abyssian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      … You seem to be assuming Google search results are they reasonable metric to measure the increase of a thing in the world.

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