I did not follow the World Series.<\/p>\n
I wore my Hebrew Red Sox cap during the Series.<\/p>\n
Ergo:<\/p>\n
The Red Sox won the World Series.<\/p>\n
You can talk all you want about there being a big difference between correlation and causality. I know better.<\/p>\n
The Red Sox won because<\/em> I did not follow the Series, and because<\/em> I wore my Hebrew Red Sox cap during the Series. I know<\/em> that there is a direct causal link, because the world revolves around me<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I did not follow the World Series. I wore my Hebrew Red Sox cap during the Series. Ergo: The Red Sox won the World Series. You can talk all you want about there being a big difference between correlation and causality. I know better. The Red Sox won because I did not follow the Series, … Continue reading “A clear causal chain”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[112,378],"class_list":["post-3449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture","tag-baseball","tag-correlation-vs-causation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3450,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449\/revisions\/3450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}