Any causation is accompanied by someone reminding everyone that correlation doesn’t imply causation.
Comment on Correlation == Causation?
Dookieman12@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Correlation doesn’t necessarily mean causation, but every instance of causation is accompanied by at least one correlation.
Disregarding correlation entirely is equally fallacious.
red_tomato@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
marcos@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh, not every. But the correlation is really high for some reason.
trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I mean, you do still need to subtract this:
Population distribution in the US (it’s an xkcd comic making a joke about this)
Malgas@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there’.