• magnetosphere @beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Maybe I’m a dork, but I think“correlation does not equal causation” is actually a good thing to keep in mind.

    I’m reminded of it every time a news story says something is “linked” to something else. I hate it when the word “linked” is used in this way. It’s often lazy journalism and/or a scare tactic. Saying that two things are “linked” implies a stronger relationship than may actually exist. I find it deliberately misleading.

    • Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      Almost everything on the picture is a good thing to keep in mind. But the creator of the meme depicted it as a thought of a soyjack so there is nothing can be done, we now should abandon that logic entirely.