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Comment author: Kindly 04 October 2012 09:09:50PM *  3 points [-]

If B said "that is statistical dependence, not causation", wouldn't they be equally wrong in exactly the same way?

B would be wrong in the exact same way. So the true reason that B is wrong needs to apply in both cases. On the other hand, appealing to the correlation formula only defeats the correlation version of the argument.

Comment author: jmmcd 04 October 2012 09:38:26PM 3 points [-]

Ah, I see what you mean. You're right.

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