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> I could post a similar chart showing that my trips to Costco pump BTC. Obligatory mention: http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations http://www.tylervi
by freeflight 9y ago
> I could post a similar chart showing that my trips to Costco pump BTC.
Obligatory mention: http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
- arcticfox 9y agoBaffling how you think that's relevant here. A relevant analogy would be a correlation between "trips to Costco and dollars spent at Costco". Do more trips to Costco definitely cause more dollars to be spent there? Maybe, maybe not, but there is strong reason to believe so.
- bigtunacan 9y agoIt’s relevance is in how clearly it illustrates the ease of being able to correlate two unrelated things, but despite this fact many people repeatedly try to use correlation to imply causation.