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graeme on Oct 23, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: A woman who can smell Parkinson's disease

That can't be right. There are so many spurious correlations that obviously imply nothing.

There's got to be some other required factor before correlation can imply causation. Like "if there's reason to believe something is relevant, and there is correlation, then that implies causation. "

stephengillie on Oct 23, 2015 | [–]

But a "reason to believe something is relevant" is a prejudged correlation.

taejo on Oct 23, 2015 | [–]

imply, v. ... (transitive, of a person or proposition) to hint; to insinuate; to suggest tacitly and avoid a direct statement

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