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1 in 3 Americans know someone who died of old age in the last year Correlation is not causation
by hbbio 6y ago
1 in 3 Americans know someone who died of old age in the last year
Correlation is not causation
- klmadfejno 6y agoWhat would the implied causality be here?
- aphextron 6y agoFortunately you can't catch old age from touching a doorknob.
- beisner 6y agoProbably won’t catch COVID from a doorknob either: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00251-4 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00251-4
- aphextron 6y agoAnd I knew someone would post this snarky response. Yes, COVID is definitely different from literally every other microbe we know of that spreads on common surfaces. Also "probably not" still means hundreds of thousands of infections at the scale of this pandemic.
- beisner 6y agoI pointed it out because referencing a questionable mode of transmission undermined the punch of your original "snarky response".