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Re:“My Car does not start when I buy Vanilla Ice Cream” (2015) by orrymr on Friday December 13, 2019 @04:39AM (#21780317)
Correlation vs causation, eh?
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Re:“My Car does not start when I buy Vanilla Ice Cream” (2015) by lordnacho on Friday December 13, 2019 @05:48AM (#21780596)
There is causation, just not directly from ice cream to vapor lock. It's a diagram with three entities, ice cream -> time to cool -> vapor lock
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Re:“My Car does not start when I buy Vanilla Ice Cream” (2015) by perl4ever on Sunday December 15, 2019 @02:22AM (#21794961)
That's the nature of all situations in which "correlation is not causation".
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Re:“My Car does not start when I buy Vanilla Ice Cream” (2015) by cyborgx7 on Friday December 13, 2019 @05:08AM (#21780433)
It actually is causation. There just happens to be a causal step in between.
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