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He suggests the name change caused the deterioration. Since we know correlation is not causation, I propose a more likely situation: that one thing caused both
by spodek 9y ago
He suggests the name change caused the deterioration. Since we know correlation is not causation, I propose a more likely situation:
that one thing caused both: a personality that would choose to go through the effort of changing his name to a cartoon super hero.
- mortenjorck 9y agoIf you read the article, the author cites quite a few very believable effects of having such an outlandish name. While I don’t doubt that having such an eccentric combination of puckishness and impulsivity would cause problems professionally and personally, those are not the problems directly addressed in the piece.
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoDo you assert that he's lying, then, about getting in all sorts of bureaucratic snafus with people who've never met him? Other than the dating thing, most of the people giving him trouble have never seen his personality.
- dogecoinbase 9y agoI propose a more likely situation: that one thing caused both: Sorry, correlation is not causation. (And unlike you, he provides direct evidence for his causative hypothesis.)