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[–] LiamMayfair -2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Given enough data, you can prove anything. Correlation doesn't imply causation folks!

[–] iceonfire1@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there'. -Source

[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

In the absence of a controllable experiment, correlation is as close to causation as we can get I suppose.

In any case, this is quite a interesting correlation.