Calling Bullshit 3.5: Common Causes

[@carlbergstrom9071]

In this lecture I stumble trying to translate the phrase "Post hoc propter ergo hoc". A viewer kindly pointed out that this is because the phrase as written on the slide has reversed the words "propter" and "ergo". The slide should read "Post hoc ergo propter hoc", meaning "After this, therefore because of it".

[@JanBabiuchHall]

2:50 current example: Number of COVID-19 cases in an area is correlated to installations of 5G towers in the same area. But both map perfectly onto population density maps.

[@alsterwasser08]

I really liked the tweet of little Donald, he's highly correlated with alternative facts. :)

[@AntoniPawlowski]

The “anticipation” of having a baby in one month’s time causes people to shop for baby seat at Babies’r Us. So in a sense, causality can “run backwards” in time, can’t it?

[@bryanreed742]

It can seem that way, but both are caused by the state of someone being pregnant. The purchase of the seat isn't caused by the birth. It would happen even if, tragically, the birth unexpectedly failed.

[@colinklett1591]

"This is one of Carl and I's favorite papers." Good God, no wonder we Americans are so grammar challenged.

[@nickshelbourne4426]

"x and I" is correct grammar

[@colinklett1627]

@@nickshelbourne4426 You're partially correct Nick. If Jevin said, "Carl and I like this paper." That would be grammatically correct. But there's no such word as "I's." The possessive of "I" is my or mine, not I's.

[@Chupacabraification]

Ah, the good old days when those Whole Foods people were the antivaxers... Now it seems to be an issue on the political right, for whatever reason.

[@Jajdjejwi28]

Asin bayraklari

[@JohnnyWishbone85]

This one certainly didn't age well. :P