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As in "I used to think correlation implied causation. Then I took a statistics class. Now I don't..." http://xkcd.com/552/ http://xkcd.com/552/
by cschmidt 13y ago
As in "I used to think correlation implied causation. Then I took a statistics class. Now I don't..."
http://xkcd.com/552/ http://xkcd.com/552/
- snowwrestler 13y agoThe reason that comic is funny is because there is a known mechanism that we would expect to cause that effect: teaching.
- dredmorbius 13y agoWhich is why the alt text on that particular comic is so key. Correlation suggests that if you're looking for causation, it might be somewhere over here. It doesn't insist that the two are the same, but if you're looking for clues, it's a hell of a dowsing rod.