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To: Twotone; MNDude; sport; Slings and Arrows; onedoug; headsonpikes
Almost every one of his major points is an example of correlation being confused with causation. That's the major error made with statistics from middle-school on out: and it only takes a middle-schooler to detect it.

Example: porn and rape. Porn went up, rape went down. Fine. But during the same time span:

Conversely...

SO???


19 posted on 07/15/2013 2:27:56 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Credulity means believing something on little evidence, on no evidence, or against the evidence.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Good point.


34 posted on 07/15/2013 6:40:01 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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