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Re:I can't let go of “The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorre... by mike_hearn on Friday April 22, 2022 @05:56AM (#31119852)
Is that the fault of statistics though, or the non-statistical implication of causation that was tacked on the end of the statistical detection of correlation? Statistics is pretty explicit that it can't tell you about causality, right?
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Re:I can't let go of “The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorre... by omginternets on Friday April 22, 2022 @07:13AM (#31120262)
Yes, the whole point is that you can use sound statistics in bad faith.
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