You're assuming the epiphany is the cause of their excitement, but you have no proof. There could be other causes.
When people first learn that correlation is not identical with causation, they're so excited by the novelty of the idea that they mention it at every opportunity.
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Can't tell if you're serious, or if this is a subtle-but-clever joke.
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Subtle-but-clever jokes can be both serious and true.
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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This correlates with my experience on the subject
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Your experience caused you to make the correlation.
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Just the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon playing out :)
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I just googled it. Now I’m experiencing irresistible urge to use Baader-Meinhof phenomenon in a sentence. Is this recursive Baader-Meinhof phenomenon?
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What do you think causes them to do this?
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We are naturally built to intuitively overvalue correlations
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