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REDACTED@infosec.pub to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 13 hours ago

Correlation implies causation

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    Eh…

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

    https://trends.google.com.br/trends/explore?date=today+5-y&q=dizziness%2CSean+Connery+alive%3F&hl=pt-BR

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

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