• Liam Mayfair
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    4 months ago

    Given enough data, you can prove anything. Correlation doesn’t imply causation folks!

    • iceonfire1@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

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

    • SmoothOperator@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      In the absence of a controllable experiment, correlation is as close to causation as we can get I suppose.

      In any case, this is quite a interesting correlation.