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rsheridan6
on Oct 5, 2009
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Your Race Affects Whether People Write You Back (W...
Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there'.
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emmett
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One might even say, well-controlled correlation implies causation. That's what experiments are for!
Anon84
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Reread my comment... I never said it did, I just said that people tend to confuse the two.
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