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Vitruvius wrote: ↑Wed Sep 22, 2021 12:02 pm

Belinda wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 3:46 pm I know you have no clue what I am talking about. I come to this forum to learn but so far nobody has helped with my problem about correlations. When I first read that quotation from you I thought here is someone who understands about correlations.

Vitruvius wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 9:14 pmI understand correlation as well as the next university graduate; what I don't understand is your problem with it. I love this one; more people die in hospitals than in McDonald's so if I have a heart attack, get a big mac and milkshake down me, stat! That's a spurious correlation.

Belinda wrote: ↑Wed Sep 22, 2021 10:53 amMaybe, but you don't understand that correlations, negative or positive, are not always causal but are sometimes laws of nature(or science).

So your problem with correlations then, is what you assume I don't understand?

How do you know what I understand, or don't understand?

Are you a mind reader?

Vitruvius wrote: ↑Wed Sep 22, 2021 6:34 pm There's no such thing as 'more sustainable.' Sustainability is binary: either we are sustainable or not. There's less unsustainable, that makes sense, but "more sustainable" does not.

Vitruvius wrote: ↑Wed Sep 22, 2021 12:02 pm

Belinda wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 3:46 pm I know you have no clue what I am talking about. I come to this forum to learn but so far nobody has helped with my problem about correlations. When I first read that quotation from you I thought here is someone who understands about correlations.

Vitruvius wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 9:14 pmI understand correlation as well as the next university graduate; what I don't understand is your problem with it. I love this one; more people die in hospitals than in McDonald's so if I have a heart attack, get a big mac and milkshake down me, stat! That's a spurious correlation.

Belinda wrote: ↑Wed Sep 22, 2021 10:53 amMaybe, but you don't understand that correlations, negative or positive, are not always causal but are sometimes laws of nature(or science).

So your problem with correlations then, is what you assume I don't understand?

How do you know what I understand, or don't understand?

Are you a mind reader?

Belinda wrote: ↑Thu Sep 23, 2021 3:03 pmNo, its just that you don't philosophise about acausal correlations.

Vitruvius wrote: ↑Thu Sep 23, 2021 4:16 pm

Vitruvius wrote: ↑Wed Sep 22, 2021 12:02 pm

Belinda wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 3:46 pm I know you have no clue what I am talking about. I come to this forum to learn but so far nobody has helped with my problem about correlations. When I first read that quotation from you I thought here is someone who understands about correlations.

Vitruvius wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 9:14 pmI understand correlation as well as the next university graduate; what I don't understand is your problem with it. I love this one; more people die in hospitals than in McDonald's so if I have a heart attack, get a big mac and milkshake down me, stat! That's a spurious correlation.

Belinda wrote: ↑Wed Sep 22, 2021 10:53 amMaybe, but you don't understand that correlations, negative or positive, are not always causal but are sometimes laws of nature(or science).

So your problem with correlations then, is what you assume I don't understand?

How do you know what I understand, or don't understand?

Are you a mind reader?

Belinda wrote: ↑Thu Sep 23, 2021 3:03 pmNo, its just that you don't philosophise about acausal correlations.

Such as?

Belinda wrote: ↑Thu Sep 23, 2021 6:32 pm We already had that quarrel about Venus and the stars.

Vitruvius wrote: ↑Thu Sep 23, 2021 7:06 pm

Belinda wrote: ↑Thu Sep 23, 2021 6:32 pm We already had that quarrel about Venus and the stars.

Interesting use of language; so you're quarrelling? That's why you're so awkward. It's not mere stupidity? Huh! May I ask what you're quarrelling about exactly?

Belinda wrote: ↑Thu Sep 23, 2021 7:51 pm

Vitruvius wrote: ↑Thu Sep 23, 2021 7:06 pm

Belinda wrote: ↑Thu Sep 23, 2021 6:32 pm We already had that quarrel about Venus and the stars.

Interesting use of language; so you're quarrelling? That's why you're so awkward. It's not mere stupidity? Huh! May I ask what you're quarrelling about exactly?

Call it a difference of opinion or an argument if you prefer and save your energy for the fight for survival.

Belinda wrote: ↑Thu Sep 23, 2021 7:51 pm Call it a difference of opinion or an argument if you prefer and save your energy for the fight for survival.