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Good_Burning_Plastic comments on Stupid Questions, 2nd half of December - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 14 January 2016 11:03:57AM 2 points [-]

However, "correlated with" is not a transitive relation unless the correlations are fairly substantial.

googles for "correlation between height and foot length" Uh, I thought that was much stronger than it actually is.