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0 pointsadrianN7y ago0 comments

I'm reasonably sure that the set of things that are correlated is much, much larger than the set of things that have a causal relationship. Check for example http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

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onion2k7y ago

The number of things that aren't correlated is waaaaaaay bigger. It's still worth investigating when there's a possible link.

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0 pointsadrianN7y ago0 comments

I'm reasonably sure that the set of things that are correlated is much, much larger than the set of things that have a causal relationship. Check for example http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

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onion2k7y ago

The number of things that aren't correlated is waaaaaaay bigger. It's still worth investigating when there's a possible link.

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