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Given how carefully written that aspect of the actual article text was, I'm assuming that the photo + caption was added later on by someone else who was more in
by KyeRussell 9y ago
Given how carefully written that aspect of the actual article text was, I'm assuming that the photo + caption was added later on by someone else who was more interested in clickbait than differentiation between cause and correlation (or didn't understand the difference in the first place). Journalism is dead, rabble rabble.
- dx034 9y agoOr just not aware of the difference. Not everyone helping with layouts is evil and just wants clickbait. They're just not always experts on the field.
- jacobush 9y agoIndeed. Also keep in mind, that though someone might realize, on an abstract level, that ”correlation is not causation”, they might not be used to actively looking for that distinction in text. Everyday discussions tend to be more fluid and inexact.