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I may be thick but I don't get the tagline at all. How can A not imply A for any value of A? (A = correlation in this case.) Or maybe this is one of those cl
by ninkendo 12y ago
I may be thick but I don't get the tagline at all. How can A not imply A for any value of A? (A = correlation in this case.)
Or maybe this is one of those clickbait titles that state something logically contradictory so that you'll get miffed and read the rest.
- Double_Cast 12y agoCorrelation (in sample) != Correlation (in population) Also, apophenia. E.g. consider constellations. Stars are distributed randomly, but that doesn't stop us from making patterns out of them anyways.
- jerf 12y agoIn other words, it equivocates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivocation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivocation Wikipedia concentrates on the fallacy angle... in this case it isn't a fallacy, it's sloganeering, since the point is to encourage the viewer to be confused and dig into the two different meanings being used. I think it's not likely to work too well, though.