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3491860 No.3491860 [Reply] [Original]

Cite a specific example where correlation does not equal causation.

>> No.3491873

Legal fathers and pregnent mothers.

>> No.3491879

It's dark at night. Therefore darkness causes the sun to set.

>> No.3491884

And not to sound like a retard:
>pregnant

>> No.3491896

The number of fire fighters on a scene, and the size of the fire.

80% of criminals keep milk in their fridge.

>> No.3491897

A causes B and C.
B and C are correlated.
B does not cause C, or the other way around.

>> No.3491899

broke my arm in a red shirt
red shirts break bones

>> No.3491905

Global warming correlates with decline of piracy.

>> No.3491907

You posted that picture and my penis became erect.

Oh wait shit that actually is causation

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>> No.3491916

Since I started jacking off as a young lad, I've yet to be attacked by a bear.

>> No.3491918

I took my dog for a walk right before the Tsunami hit in Japan.

Walking my dog causes Tsunamis in Japan.

>> No.3491919

In 2000 Cityville had two movie theaters, but by 2010, Cityville had ten movie theaters. During this period, the homicide rate doubled from 4% to 8%. Thus, movie theaters cause an increase in homicides.

>> No.3491921
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>>3491905
yarr!

>> No.3491923

>>3491910
It's a conspiracy!

Foreign plutocrats are restricting the production of quality music to cripple domestic oil production!

>> No.3491930 [DELETED] 

As spring begins birds start to come back. Birds coming back correlates with the arrival of spring. Therefore birds cause Spring.

>> No.3491936

I am smart, and am single. But that does not mean that being smart makes you sing-
>oh wait

>> No.3491934

>>3491860
Economy gets better as women's skirts get shorter. Therefore, we should make skirts shorter to solve the debt crisis.

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>> No.3491949

As soon as I entered University, a Black man was elected president, and has been president for as long as I have remained in university. Therefore my attendance in university causes America to have a black president.

>> No.3491955

>>3491949

You son of a bitch.

>> No.3491959

>>3491949
GET HIM!

>> No.3491961

>>3491921
I know that graph is just a joke but there are probably just as many if not more pirates now there were in the 1800's.

>> No.3491966

The increasing number of gay marriages and CO2 levels

>> No.3491980

i drink water every day and i have not died
water causes immortality

>> No.3492004

smoking and lung cancer

>> No.3492013

>>3492004
Well done, son.

>> No.3492024

the number of women in the USA and the number of whores in the USA

>> No.3492026

in the olden days they thought icecream caused polio because polio infections went up at the same times icecream sails increased

http://www.theleafchronicle.com/article/20110731/COLUMNISTS107/107310302/COLUMN-Vaccinations-ice-cre
am-scare-1940?odyssey=mod|mostcom

>> No.3492029

>>3492004
Quite right. I'm fairly sure lung cancer doesn't cause smoking.

>> No.3492034

>>3491860
Ice cream sales and shark attacks.

>> No.3492041

>>3492026
>>ice cream sails

On the good ship Lollipop, right?

>> No.3492047

>>3492041

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkwwohJ27ao

Lick a loli

>> No.3492048

Lower test scores for black and Hispanic kids aren't necessarily caused by race itself.