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BerryPick6 comments on Taking "correlation does not imply causation" back from the internet - Less Wrong Discussion

41 Post author: sixes_and_sevens 03 October 2012 12:18PM

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Comment author: BerryPick6 03 October 2012 01:09:40PM 4 points [-]

Content-related suggestion. Comics are great tools for people too lazy/busy to read long articles, so here's XKCD's take

Comment author: Steven_Bukal 03 October 2012 04:39:10PM 4 points [-]

Aren't comics like that the source of the cached thought we're trying to improve on here?

Comment author: philh 03 October 2012 05:55:08PM 4 points [-]

The mouseover text is important:

Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there'.