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To: ConservativeMind
Correlation is not causation.


3 posted on 03/25/2022 2:32:38 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Depopulate the depopulationists. --FJB)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So you believe people having coffee each day, with all other identifiable factors able to be pulled away, are, just by chance, all doing better than those who don’t drink coffee?

When all the factors are with the same type of population, it is much more likely to show causation than from distinctly different subject matter choices.


9 posted on 03/25/2022 2:41:45 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Correlation is not causation.”

Neither is it non causation.


15 posted on 03/25/2022 3:15:54 PM PDT by A strike ("Well, here's another fine mess you've gotten us into.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
You must not know statistics.

Try this from a Statistical Mechanics textbook:

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27 posted on 03/25/2022 10:01:35 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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