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Re:Warning Signs About Another Giant Bitcoin Exchange by arcticfox on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @09:18AM (#15756915)
Baffling how you think that's relevant here.

A relevant analogy would be a correlation between "trips to Costco and dollars spent at Costco". Do more trips to Costco definitely cause more dollars to be spent there? Maybe, maybe not, but there is strong reason to believe so.

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Re:Warning Signs About Another Giant Bitcoin Exchange by bigtunacan on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @10:45AM (#15757639)
It’s relevance is in how clearly it illustrates the ease of being able to correlate two unrelated things, but despite this fact many people repeatedly try to use correlation to imply causation.
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