Correlation is not causation and is meaningless for extrapolations. The only thi...

Gareth321 · on July 3, 2023

I made no claims about causation. The claim is correlation. Perhaps you should re-read the comments :)

411111111111111 · on July 3, 2023

you're extrapolation, thus you're using it as a causation.

Let me give you an example:

Swiss cheese has holes, by studying its properties you can find a correlation between the size of the cheese and the total volume of holes.

You do another study and find that as you increase the size of the holes the cheese, you're left with less grams of cheese.

by your logic, which extrapolates between these two unrelated studies finding different correlations, you can confidently state this:

  more cheese correlates with more holes
  more holes correlates with less cheese

  more cheese == less cheese

outstanding logic, indeed.

searealist · on July 2, 2023

The claim being made is correlation.