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IlyaShpitser 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: IlyaShpitser 03 October 2012 03:05:14PM *  5 points [-]

I like how this guy complains about "internet blowhards" abusing this phrase, but then gets basic reporting of correlation in scientific papers wrong (by reporting causation in articles he wrote about those papers). There was a comment on that slate article calling him out on this.