/sci/ - Science & Math

>>8364688
causation doesn't exist you filthy disgusting determinist

>>8364690
Determinism is the only meaningful framework to consider reality through.

Your opinions are wrong and you should feel wrong and like the lowest of gutter filth.

>>8364688
Well, she obviously died because she didn't get another one ten days after
Since correlation implies causation and all

>>8364688
100% of crimes are committed within 4 days of drinking water.

This implies that drinking water causes crime.

This is how retarded you sound.

>>8364690
>events happen for no reason
kys

>>8365410
No, it implies that crime causes drinking water. Criminals provide a vital public health service.

>>8364697
>Determinism is the only meaningful framework to consider reality through.
>Determinism is appealing to the king of OCD pedants that go into physics, even though we've known that it's wrong since before Abe Lincoln was elected President.
FTFW
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace%27s_demon#Thermodynamic_irreversibility
>Laplace's demon met its end with early 19th century developments of the concepts of irreversibility, entropy, and the second law of thermodynamics.

>>8364697
>Determinism is the only meaningful framework to consider reality through.
>Determinism is appealing to the kind of OCD pedants that go into physics, even though we've known that it's wrong since before Abe Lincoln was elected President.
FTFW
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace%27s_demon#Thermodynamic_irreversibility
>Laplace's demon met its end with early 19th century developments of the concepts of irreversibility, entropy, and the second law of thermodynamics.

>>8365525
*FTFY
Had Absinthe and weed-tea for breakfast.

>>8365410
If they didn't drink water there would be no crime.

Who cares what kills you at 101 you've basically won at that point.

>>8365626
Yep, you just got dubs then trips, there's nowhete to to from there

>>8365657
>you just got dubs then trips
Do you even know what trips are?

>>8364690
>Convince me correlation does not imply causation.
I can't, because it does.

Correlation always implies causation in the weak, colloquial sense of implies (equivalent to suggests). The job of the scientist is to design experiments to demonstrate correlation in such a way that the only reasonable interpretation is to conclude true causation.

If no such experiment can be performed, the next best thing is to fall back on several criteria for concluding causation. To summarize - is the correlation consistent, is there a biologically plausible mechanism (even if it has not been proved), does the effect increase as the dose of the putative causative agent increases, is the correlation replicable? If all of those things are true, you might be justified in concluding causation from correlation.

>>8365525
There are good physical arguments against determinism but you picked something else

>>8365410
I can't imagine being retarded.
I'm sorry about life, Anon.