by @timoelliott@mastodon.social (source)
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Cartoon of a professor in a classroom pointing at a blackboard saying "every single person who confuses correlation and causation ends up dying"
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!
Technically not 100%, a modern study has shown that there are 8 billion people who breathe oxygen currently living!
I found a study where they were able to exclude those examples from the data set for various reasons. :P
Can't live with it, can't live without it.
_Oxygen
what is it about it?_
Oxygen kills, got it.
holy shit batman!
100% of gamblers quit right before they win
Every time!!
The trick is to find a partner while you're still alive. Screw those single persons!
Everyone who writes on a blackboard ends up dying
Yeah, I only use Post-it notes and I have never died.
Coincidence? I don't think so
AI generated images are getting more impressive.
Is this that cel shading I've heard so much about?
Dang, it sucks that death somehow causes misunderstandings of empiricism
I need this on a shirt
Spooky
that's not even correlation
Agreed, the correlation between 2 random variables is undefined if one of the variables is actually a constant (the formula reduces to 0/0)
Every single person who does not confuse lives forever? Good.
so does everyone else
And that, my friends, is the joke
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