gwern comments on Confound it! Correlation is (usually) not causation! But why not? - LessWrong

44 Post author: gwern 09 July 2014 03:04AM

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Comment author: gwern 09 July 2014 03:42:14PM 5 points [-]

It appears I've accidentally nerdsniped everyone! I was just trying to give an idea that it was really really big. (I had done some googling for the exact answer but they all seemed rather complicated, and rather than try and get an exact answer wrong, just give a lower bound.)