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Re:The long and ugly tradition of treating Africa as a dirty... by Jach on Friday October 17, 2014 @03:37AM (#8469834)
Correlation is not causation, and correlation does not logically imply causation, but correlation is evidence of causation [1] which in a looser English context could be taken as a sort of implication. Many correlations aren't worth digging into, but others are, so you can't just dismiss all of them outright with "correlation doesn't imply causation."

[1] http://oyhus.no/CorrelationAndCausation.html

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Re:The long and ugly tradition of treating Africa as a dirty... by devnonymous on Monday October 20, 2014 @08:28AM (#8481731)
Please do not consider comments out of context and reply. That's just ...bad form. In the context of the comment I was replying to, my reply was just a simple way of saying that beyond the scope of direct genetic influence (a.k.a: outside of individuals and perhaps families, as the comment put it) attributing genetic causation to observed phenomenon is simple correlation. Well, that's all I have to contribute.
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