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2026-07-27 06:16 UTC
@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social it goes the other way around as well. "No correlation has been found between doing X and outcome Y."
"See! They can't prove it's false, gotcha!"
Used in medicine a lot...
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@Mehrad@fosstodon.org 2026-07-27 07:15
@deedo@mastodon.nl Exactly. Although, in general using correlation to "prove" (and by extension "disprove") something is a very slippery slope at best. I always use this example when I'm explaining correlation: There is a perfect positive correlation between "being married" and "getting divorce", and even higher correlation between "being born" and "death", as you cannot have the latter without the former, and yet, neither means causality. @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social