Honestly, I felt like your immediate dismissal of my statement about correlation with a canned response was aggressive and not conducive to further friendly dis

Honestly, I felt like your immediate dismissal of my statement about correlation with a canned response was aggressive and not conducive to further friendly discussion. The way you responded to me is the exact way I would talk to someone I intended to impatiently dismiss. If you're really interested in discussing the topic at hand, you can choose a tack that's more open to discussion (e.g. "OK, you say they're correlated, but is there any actual evidence for causation?" might be slightly aggro, but it doesn't come off as completely dismissing what the other person said or lecture them on the basics of epistemology). I'm sorry that I reacted the way that I did.