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Anonymous Wed 26 May 19:55:17 2021 No.13193183 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>13193325 >>13193406 >>13194735 >>13196968 >>13198850

What's the deal with correlation and causation?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 May 2021 20:20:07 No.13193325 Report

Quoted By: >>13193389 >>13193396

>>13193183
>When you jerk off to tranny porn it seems like the stock market goes up 1%.
>Does that mean the market moved because you jerked off to tranny porn?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 May 2021 20:31:55 No.13193389 Report

Quoted By: >>13193537

>>13193325
Can correlation ever equal causation? I feel like if two things are tightly correlated then either one causes the other, or a third factor causes both.
Can causation ever be proven?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 May 2021 20:33:22 No.13193396 Report

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>>13193325
Probably not, but I'm gonna keep jerking off to tranny porn just in case.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 May 2021 20:35:17 No.13193406 Report

Quoted By: >>13193425 >>13193426

>>13193183
Cov(x,y) ?0 don’t mean x has an effect on y.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 May 2021 20:38:15 No.13193425 Report

Quoted By: >>13193435 >>13198601

>>13193406
Sure one does not directly affect another
Being black does not make you do crime
If it did then getting a tan or wearing blackface would make you more criminal
However, the two are closely correlated
Can we say correlation does not ALWAYS equal causation?
Or correlation equals SHARED causation?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 May 2021 20:38:33 No.13193426 Report

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>>13193406
When you do a linear regression you control for other variables to make sure correlation is causation.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 May 2021 20:41:04 No.13193435 Report

Quoted By: >>13193454

>>13193425
https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 May 2021 20:45:33 No.13193454 Report

Quoted By: >>13194705

if I stub my toe, my toe will hurt

therefore, if my toe hurts, I must have stubbed my toe

>>13193435

a decent number of these can reasonably be attributed to population size.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 26 May 2021 21:04:17 No.13193537 Report

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>>13193389
There are methods for suggesting causation, but it is never proven. The finer you are able to break down a correlation into a finer causal chain, the more confident you can be.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 27 May 2021 01:57:53 No.13194705 Report

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>>13193454
What if stubbing your toe isn't the only reason that your toe would hurt?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 27 May 2021 02:03:53 No.13194735 Report

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>>13193183
>causation
X implies Y
>coorelation
X doesn't imply Y but you find a special case where both X and Y take place

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 27 May 2021 15:19:31 No.13196968 Report

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>>13193183
There are no causation, anywhere, atleast not the commonly understood definition. What we understand as causation is merely correlations. Thats all it ever was.

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Anonymous Thu 27 May 2021 21:09:37 No.13198601 Report

Quoted By: >>13198889

>>13193425
>Sure one does not directly affect another
>Being black does not make you do crime
>If it did then getting a tan or wearing blackface would make you more criminal
>However, the two are closely correlated
>Can we say correlation does not ALWAYS equal causation?
>Or correlation equals SHARED causation?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 27 May 2021 21:15:44 No.13198619 Report

Quoted By: >>13198624

Correlation doesn't equal causation

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Anonymous Thu 27 May 2021 21:17:52 No.13198624 Report

Quoted By: >>13199045 >>13199148

>>13198619
Correlation equals causation.

Jesus

Jesus Thu 27 May 2021 22:11:10 No.13198850 Report

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>>13193183
swapping cause and effect is the primary method of manipulation of stupid humans.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 27 May 2021 22:24:48 No.13198889 Report

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>>13198601
kek

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Anonymous Thu 27 May 2021 22:29:45 No.13198905 Report

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>implying

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