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aren't trivialities irrelevant by definition?

• iammisc 5y ago
  To be trivial means to be unimportant, but there is a difference between unimportant and irrelevant. For example, if we found that factor X led to minorities making y% less, but y was 0.00000001, then factor X is trivial, but depending on what you're doing, it may be relevant t the discussion at hand. Often though today, the things mentioned are not only trivial (not having any meaningful effect) but also irrelevant (in that the causal relationship hypothesized is extremely strained if not non-existent).