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[–] Antiracist10 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago 

Correlation doesn't equal causation, faggot.

@SarMegahhikkitha @bojangles

Scientists are trained to recognize that correlation is not causation, that no conclusions should be drawn simply on the basis of correlation between X and Y (it could just be a coincidence).

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Petabytes allow us to say: "Correlation is enough." We can stop looking for models. We can analyze the data without hypotheses about what it might show. We can throw the numbers into the biggest computing clusters the world has ever seen and let statistical algorithms find patterns where science cannot.

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The new availability of huge amounts of data, along with the statistical tools to crunch these numbers, offers a whole new way of understanding the world. Correlation supersedes causation, and science can advance even without coherent models, unified theories, or really any mechanistic explanation at all.

https://www.wired.com/2008/06/pb-theory/

How's Nagel, fagleshigh? You gay dummy.