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It's a perfect example of correlation not equating with causality! 1) A company is more likely to stalk you than any person. 2) A company is more likely to cau
by orbitingpluto 14y ago
It's a perfect example of correlation not equating with causality!
1) A company is more likely to stalk you than any person.
2) A company is more likely to cause your death than any person.
- tedunangst 14y agoThat may be true, but I think the conditional probability that a person will kill you, given that they are stalking you, is much higher than the probability that a company will kill you after stalking you. The fact that an individual is stalking you is more significant than the fact that a company is.
- orbitingpluto 14y agoAt least individuals have dignity enough to warn you that they are planning to kill you! :p But inserting conditional probably doesn't change anything: P(A) >= P(A|B)
- tedunangst 14y agoYour inequality is backwards.
- orbitingpluto 14y agoNope. P(A) will always be greater than or equal to P(A|B). Assume P(B)=1. What's P(A|B)? P(A). You're still right about your claim, it's just that I don't really care if a corporation is more likely to kill me anyway. Then the world goes all bizarro and you want a corporation to spy on you! (Your conditional probability statement would imply that it is safer to be spied on by a corporation. Please, take all off my personal information! I don't wanna dieeeee!)