Posted on 02/08/2011 8:21:56 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
Dahamer, Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy to start with.
Did I offend you in some way? Which of the three catagories do you fall into or are you all of the above?
Seek help.
Yes. All three of those men abused and tortured animals when they were young and they all became demonic killers. Of course, I’ll bet all three of them also watched television and drank milk when they were children.
The fact that ‘A’ has been shown to be statistically related to ‘B’ does NOT mean that ‘A’ causes ‘B’. And it DEFINITELY does not mean that ‘B’ causes ‘A’.
You know what, though? Never mind.
Your answer tells me that trying to logically explain the difference between correlation and causation to you would be a monumental waste of effort.
By someone else's Cock...
He didn’t fight back? What a chicken!
From your response, I seem to gather that I should have added the /sarc so that you would have understood I was not offended in any way.
Most any FReeper would hardly be ‘challenged’ by most any word choice.
However, your post does appear to be premised upon a confusion of correlation with causation.
For instance, while it it true that 90+% of all heroin addicts have a pot smoking history, it is also true that virtually all heroin addicts have a milk history.
Correlation is only causation in the Liberal wing of the ‘soft sciences’. Admittedly, this population includes nearly all of the members of the ‘soft sciences’.
“Seek help” implies thatyour soft science based perspectives, and snark, are valid.
I disagree.
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