I've come a long way to where the ignorant replies to this are amusing rather than absolutely utterly infuriating.https://twitter.com/ZoggTheAlien/status/707334009475481602 …
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Replying to @wilkieii
@ZoggTheAlien number of responses about correlation-vs-causation make me think they believe correlation REFUTES causation.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @emilyst
yeah, they heard the phrase but don't necessarily know how to apply it. lack of direct causation doesn't reject an hypothesis.
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considering the various other evidence and correlations that support this one, it is good we don't reject hypotheses on a male whim
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Replying to @wilkieii
bringing up correlation-versus-causation implies hidden variables, but none are needed to account for the data, afaik.
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Also, it's time series data, so you need to account for dynamics.
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