• @bananabenana
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    10 months ago

    Hasn’t read the article methods but still decided to comment: cOrReLaTiOn dOeSn’t eQuAl cAuSaTiOn

      • @whalebiologist
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        210 months ago

        this is the way doggo puppers, hecking upboats to the left

    • @UnderpantsWeevil
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      610 months ago

      https://xkcd.com/552/

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

    • ioen
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      410 months ago

      There’s a generation of internet debate guys who seem convinced that correlation disproves causation

    • @Maggoty
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      210 months ago

      Yeah but also just publishing correlation is a shitty practice. That’s supposed to be a hint to look deeper, not the end conclusion.