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Author Re: What's Wrong With the New York Times's Science Reporting: Nothing
Mark Probert

2004-12-27, 4:08 am


"George Conklin" <georgeconklin1@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> "Orac" <orac_usa@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I wonder if Ilena even knows that a correlation is.


There is no evidence that she does. From reading her posts for as long as I
have, she appears to believe that correlation EQUALS causation, and that
they are interchangeable.



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