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It's frustrating that the author acknowledges that most bad things are probably heavily correlated, but just soldiers on with his point as though they're indepe
by drngdds 7y ago
It's frustrating that the author acknowledges that most bad things are probably heavily correlated, but just soldiers on with his point as though they're independent random variables. Poverty in particular is heavily correlated with, well, most bad things that can happen to a person.
- m463 7y agoI know someone who was abused as a child, and was treated for drug addiction. When he went to drug rehab, every single person he talked to had been abused as a child.
- bilbo0s 7y agoObviously I wouldn't know for sure since I'm not the author. That said, I think the author is saying that bad things can happen to a person, even if the heavily correlated thing has not happened to a person? Again, just taking a stab at what the author meant. Not claiming that I know or anything.