They never use this maxim re: “climate change”
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That one is a "common cause" example rather than causation.
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correlation implies the possibility of causation
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It's one of the four possible explanations. It's either causation, common cause, reverse causation or coincidence.
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It's the midwit meme. You're trying to teach one element in a cognitive toolkit that is appropriate for the top of the distribution that the midwit understands exactly well enough to create an incoherent worldview to people who are *at best* in that middle.
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The scene in the Wizard of Oz where Scarecrow gets a degree and then incorrectly states the Pythagorean Theorem applies to isosceles triangles, that is a perfect encapsulation of "education" in America these days
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also pretending all correlation is equal here is stupid, there is a marked difference between 5% correlation and a 95% correlation
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