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Yes, using statistics wrong is particularly awful.

But ... Obligatory xkcd. https://xkcd.com/2400/ If you have to use statistics at all, then your data likely isn't good enough to be repeatable. I'm sorry about this. I wish the world was easier to measure.

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The thing is, just because you can prove there’s a correlation, doesn’t mean you’ve figured out the actual cause. Like the Flying Spaghetti Monster doctrine of piracy and global warming. And this one they discussed elsewhere in the thread:

http://daniellakens.blogspot.com/2017/07/impossibly-hungry-j...

http://sparrowism.soc.srcf.net/home/graph.png

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