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My point is that the way it's phrased guides the mind to jump to a particular conclusion.
by _bxg1 7y ago
My point is that the way it's phrased guides the mind to jump to a particular conclusion.
- boomboomsubban 7y agoNo, you jumped to a conclusion. "Predicts" is not a synonym of "causes," and any confusion you may experience would be solved by reading what they wrote.
- _bxg1 7y agoYou're intentionally ignoring what I'm saying and I'm not going to continue engaging with it.
- dang 7y agoPlease don't do this here, even if another commenter is being unfair or provocative.
- boomboomsubban 7y agoI'm sorry for the unnecessary attack. I don't see how "predict" can be seen to lead one to saying it "caused" something. I think context also matters, a journal title has exact meanings for words in mind unlike most of the media.
- chipperyman573 7y agoIt's not a direct synonym but it's also where my mind went after reading the title
- alxlaz 7y agoSo what other word would you have used for an article about a statistical prediction? This is a scientific text, "to predict" has a well-understood meaning within the field of statistics and it's not a synonym for "causes".
- dang 7y agoPlease don't pile on another commenter like that. The diminishing returns of being in the right decline exponentially, and then it just creates ill feeling. Curious conversation doesn't fit well with defeating others, and we're here for the former.
- DyslexicAtheist 7y agothe way it's phrased causes me to jump to a conclusion but I would not claim that it guides my mind. The error is in my reasoning (system 2 being lazy), _not_ in the phrasing.