RichardKennaway comments on Causality does not imply correlation - Less Wrong

13 Post author: RichardKennaway 08 July 2009 12:52AM

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Comment author: CronoDAS 08 July 2009 02:34:09AM 5 points [-]

The output of a pseudorandom number generator is determined by the seed value, but good luck finding a correlation between them! ;)

Comment author: RichardKennaway 08 July 2009 01:08:54PM 0 points [-]

That is another way that correlations can fail to detect what is happening.