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Comment by orrymr

6 years ago

Correlation vs causation, eh?

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lordnacho  6 years ago

There is causation, just not directly from ice cream to vapor lock. It's a diagram with three entities, ice cream -> time to cool -> vapor lock

  • perl4ever  6 years ago

    That's the nature of all situations in which "correlation is not causation".

cyborgx7  6 years ago

It actually is causation. There just happens to be a causal step in between.

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