Comment on Correlation == Causation?

Dookieman12@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Malgas@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there’.

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• red_tomato@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Any causation is accompanied by someone reminding everyone that correlation doesn’t imply causation.

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• marcos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Oh, not every. But the correlation is really high for some reason.

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  • trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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)

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