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Invisible00101001 t1_ixwo7uh wrote

A beautiful example of how correlation does not equal causation.

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TarantinoFan23 t1_ixz8izt wrote

That is a beautiful example of someone making an assessment without investigating the data fully. You ass

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Invisible00101001 t1_ixzbizy wrote

I'm sorry, maybe I'm missing something here. So I'm going to ignore your insult for a moment and see if I can understand.

Are you suggesting that this data, which you have "investigated fully" shows that margarine consumption causes divorce?

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TarantinoFan23 t1_ixzdn34 wrote

Another faulty conclusion from you.

I am just saying that by looking at this graph, you have no way to tell if they are correlated or not. We would need to see margin usage by relationship to make that distinction.

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bramblebog t1_ixzg1zm wrote

This is part of a series, "Spurious correlations," which shows absurd examples of statistical correlation that clearly lack any causal link.

Why you calling folks asses?

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Invisible00101001 t1_ixzk58e wrote

On further review, I think he just doesn't understand what "correlated" means. I kinda feel bad now.

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TarantinoFan23 t1_iy1fbnt wrote

Ah you are right , mistyped corralled. I meant to say, you can't conclude there's no causation relationship just from the graph.

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Invisible00101001 t1_iy1vbnk wrote

Which is exactly what i said in my post when you called me an ass. The words you're looking for are:

"I'm sorry."

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Invisible00101001 t1_ixzi4fd wrote

I'll admit that I didn't run a statistical analysis to determine standard deviations and P values to conclusively say that there is linear correlation. I just kinda made that assumption based on the similarity of the data curves that are presented and that, you know, the graph is literally titled " Divorce Rates in Maine Correlates with Margarine Consumption per Capita."

Then I made an innocent little comment about how correlation doesn't always equal causation and for some reason you're coming after me as if that insulted you somehow. Meanwhile you're not even disagreeing with me. You just don't think I did my homework adequately??

So, instead, you're gonna show up to call me "an ass" because I didn't check "margin usage" to determine distinctions on a relationship between divorce and margarine usage? On a joking/nonserious post in a maine subreddit? Are you fucking kidding me dude?? Who hurt you and made you like this?

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RatherNerdy t1_ixzktzs wrote

There's certainly an ass here, but it's not who you think it is

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