timtyler comments on Defecting by Accident - A Flaw Common to Analytical People - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 01 December 2010 11:25:51PM 1 point [-]

With correlations it isn't necessarily clear which way the causality arrows are pointing - or even if they run between the correlated items at all. In this case, one of the most obvious way to draw the arrows is from genes to all of these traits.