TheOtherDave comments on Rationality quotes: June 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 06 March 2012 05:26:48PM *  1 point [-]

Obligatory xkcd reference

That said... treating correlations as evidence of causation isn't unreasonable, as long as I remember that the world is full of evidence of falsehoods as well as truths, and calibrate accordingly.