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Surprisingly, none of the replies here in the HN thread pass the test either. They all confuse correlation with causation. A reply that would pass the test: T
by mg 2y ago
Surprisingly, none of the replies here in the HN thread pass the test either. They all confuse correlation with causation.
A reply that would pass the test:
The siblings Ana, Berta and Charles live together and get random calls from mom and dad.
Ana and Berta get angry when mom calls. So their anger is correlated.
Berta and Charles get angry when dad calls. So their anger is correlated.
The anger of Ana and Charles is not correlated though.
- card_zero 2y agoOh, that's the way. So here there's no causal relationship between a, b, or c, but there's a hidden d and e that cause (a and b) and (b and c) respectively.