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Tag Archives: causation

Love it. Thank you tyler vigen and l mcgaw!

Posted on January 31, 2016 by jburt

correlation

Is the US Government secretly responsible for strangulation suicides? Or is Nicholas cage to blame for the number of people that drown after a fall?

A great book idea from Tyler Vigen.

If you get why this is ‘funny’, you understand correlation and causation more than enough.

Posted in fallacy | Tagged causation, correlation, post hoc

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