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Just a nitpick, but you can't go around and say "successful people tend to read a lot of books, but anyway, that's probably just a correlation, not causal" and
by stdbrouw 11y ago
Just a nitpick, but you can't go around and say "successful people tend to read a lot of books, but anyway, that's probably just a correlation, not causal" and then proceed to make the argument that people should read books because it'll make them smarter. That's the exact opposite of the argument you just made. If you believe that a correlation represents a cause-effect relationship, just say so.
- Sheepzez 11y agoI was really just trying to show the point without saying "reading books will make you smarter/successful", but more to say that you may find it harder to be successful if you don't read.
- mziel 11y agoLogic tells us those two statements are equivalent. p = "reading books" q = "success" p => q is equivalent to ~q => ~p
- falsestprophet 11y agoClearly OP needs to read more books.
- johann28 11y agoThis is true but irrelevant. It may well be that reading doesn't make you successful, but not-reading makes you not-successful. It's like playing the lottery doesn't make you win, but not-playing makes you not-win.