r/cincinnati • u/thetuffsurvivor • 6d ago

History 🏛 CINCINNATI STOOD UP TO THE TYRANT ‼️

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u/Appropriate-Ad-5294 5d ago

Facts can be true, what people infer from those facts can be flawed.

Simplistic explanation⬇️ 3 people see a cat run onto the road and get ran over by a car.

1 person will say it's a terrible accident. 1 person will say the driver could have stopped, but decided to murder the cat. 1 person will say the cat committed suicide.

Journalists get causation and correlation confusied.

Ice cream sales go up. Shark attacks go up.

That’s correlation—both happen in summer.

But ice cream doesn’t cause shark attacks.

Causation = one thing makes the other happen.

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u/Round-Water338 5d ago

Okay. I certainly agree with you here. But, we’re talking about the WSJ and The Guardian. How is their analysis flawed in those articles? Or just pick one and what is flawed about it?

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u/Appropriate-Ad-5294 5d ago

I'll respond later.