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Anonymous Sat Jan 26 01:48:12 2019 No.10329112 [Reply] [Original] [archived.moe]

Friendly daily reminder that correlation does not imply causation.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 26 02:08:58 2019 No.10329134 File: 28 KB, 417x480, 1513728840771.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] [report] >>10329112 protip: smoke predicts fire pretty fucking regularly

Anonymous Sat Jan 26 02:09:12 2019 No.10329135
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>>10329112
Reminder that all observations are correlative and causality becomes a scientifically useless concept without a pre-defined causal inference criteria to work with them.

Anonymous Sat Jan 26 02:12:37 2019 No.10329140
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>>10329135
that is why you need
THE THEORY
and you must master it. or else your "reminders" shall NOT be tolerated

Anonymous Sat Jan 26 11:38:51 2019 No.10329991

>>10329112
>Friendly daily reminder that correlation does not imply causation.
Wow, that's so smart. I've never even thought about that. I've been living my whole life thinking that correlation was necessarily causation. This changes everything. Where do you come up with these brilliant ideas? You should write a book

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 26 11:54:12 2019 No.10330026 >>10329112 Sure it does, if the correlation is 1.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 26 12:36:45 2019 No.10330118 >>10329112 Yes, co2 has as much correlation to the earths temperature as ice cream sales.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 26 12:40:44 2019 No.10330129 File: 21 KB, 300x364, 300px-David_Hume.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] [report] >>10329112 hmmmmmmmmmmmm

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