(February 24, 2014 at 3:41 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(February 24, 2014 at 10:34 am)TaraJo Wrote: Ok, that's true, it's not exactly a causal relationship going on, but there does seem to be a correlation. Which is a subtle difference, but it's there.Ummm. . . no. There's nothing subtle about it. Causation means something causes something, and correlation just means two things are found together.
To take an extreme example-- everyone who's ever drunk water has died eventually. There's a perfect 1:1 correlation there. But to say that drinking fresh water kills people would be dumb.
Karl Pilkington talking about house fires that have happened because a painting was in all of them...
Ricky Gervais responds by saying, "So all house fires also occur because there's a fucking sink in them as well then?"
Great stuff.
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