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A sobering thought! (files.mastodon.social)

by @timoelliott@mastodon.social (source)

alt textCartoon of a professor in a classroom pointing at a blackboard saying "every single person who confuses correlation and causation ends up dying"

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[-] sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 54 points 1 year ago

I found one study that found that 100% of people who breathe oxygen die, but I found another study that found that 100% of people who don't breathe oxygen die!

[-] gbuttersnaps@programming.dev 16 points 1 year ago

Technically not 100%, a modern study has shown that there are 8 billion people who breathe oxygen currently living!

[-] sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 7 points 1 year ago

I found a study where they were able to exclude those examples from the data set for various reasons. :P

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