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Re:Smart people are drunks by shadytrees on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @11:46PM (#393970)
> Smart people are drunks

And you don't understand correlation and causation.

Re:Smart people are drunks by ericb on Thursday December 11, 2008 @12:04AM (#393987)
Where do you see causality implied in that title?

Have you been drinking? :-)

Re:Smart people are drunks by yters on Thursday December 11, 2008 @02:13AM (#394087)
It looks like the title says being smart causes people to become drunks. To see this, reverse the title:

"Drunks are smart people"

The reversal should be meaningless if the title only implies correlation, since correlation is bidirectional. However, since the reversal is not meaningless, then the title must imply causation.

Re:Smart people are drunks by grag on Thursday December 11, 2008 @03:12AM (#394121)
I think you've got it backwards. Since correlation is bidirectional then the reversal should NOT be meaningless.
Re:Smart people are drunks by yters on Thursday December 11, 2008 @04:10PM (#394814)
Sorry, bad wording on my part. I don't mean the reversed phrase should be meaningless, but that it should not mean something different than the unreversed phrase. However, it clearly does mean something different, therefore the implied relationship between smart and drunk is not bidirectional.

That being said, I missed the possibility of a 3rd underlying factor. The title is agnostic about this possibility.