While this appears to be not true of you, as your commentary is quite thoughtful and trenchant, I think it's all too common a thing for someone to simply state "correlation is not causation" and leave it at that, as if that proves that whoever is trying to make a point is incorrect.
For example, the global warming issue. There is, of course, one side of it -- the global warming / pirate reduction correlation. And on the other side, one can also claim that the correlation between the advent of the Industrial Revolution, the resultant rise in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, and the rise of average global temperatures is just that -- a meaningless, cherry-picked correlation.
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Date: 2006-10-17 04:59 pm (UTC)For example, the global warming issue. There is, of course, one side of it -- the global warming / pirate reduction correlation. And on the other side, one can also claim that the correlation between the advent of the Industrial Revolution, the resultant rise in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, and the rise of average global temperatures is just that -- a meaningless, cherry-picked correlation.