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A sobering thought! (files.mastodon.social)
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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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[-] qaopjlll@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Agreed, the correlation between 2 random variables is undefined if one of the variables is actually a constant (the formula reduces to 0/0)

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