#correlation does not equal causation

[greetings-inferiors]

I'm trying not to look too deep into the correlation of me starting dressing feminine and people coming up to me asking to model for shit. But this is the second time this has happened in a week.

[arcsin27]

It really is a shame that the only sonic games I can think of where silver had a prominent role in the plot are arguably the two worst games in recent memory: 06 and forces

Idk much about him yet but I get the feeling bro deserves better

[thrill-seeker-vn]

My mother… is so sweet… such a kind and naive soul. The perfect target for spreading misinformation over facebook.

We’re muslims, right, so the moon is really significant to us, and my mother has always nurtured our interest in the moon. Eg. if the moon looked super beautiful one night, and we ask to go see it, she’d be happy to drive us out to see it properly-- photos don't do it justice, she says. And whenever she finds out something positive or nice about islam she always sends it to me, which I love.

So she calls me, super excited, and she’s telling me that some studies have been linking the change of someone’s mood to the moon. Where did she find this? Facebook. Her reasoning? The moon controls the tides, and human beings are also made out of water… I love you, mom. 

[childofrats]

there was no global warming when Pirates were around, we should bring back pirates

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Tylenol & Autism/ADHD

Mrs Speechie P

[qwanderer]

Ok I thought of a new default example for "correlation does not equal causation" that pleases me more than others

Probably not true: I'm cold because my lips are blue

Perhaps the causality is reversed: my lips are blue because I am cold

Perhaps both are caused by some third factor: blue popsicle

[irlactualhuman]

I am a magic making phenom the likes of which the world has never seen.

[bastionofbibliophiles]

[sarahtunn]

Ok but does no one else find it a bit sus that Pope Francis calls Israel terrorists and then suddenly the next day he's dead...?

[ghostjelliess]

I've seen three different versions of the "less Boy Who Cried Wolf, more Cassandra Who Was Not Believed!"

And I get the sentiment, but these two things are not alike. One is a warning not to tell lies for attention or jokes, as kids do, the other is about believing women (or telling Apollo whatever he wants to hear the first time, OR the role of freewill in a world of gods... depending on who is doing the telling), which kids do anyway unless specifically taught otherwise.

[thatoctokittenclutchinganotebook]

I wish I knew how to reach out to my friends. I've been spending hours today alone trying to figure out how to message my friends. It's not the first time or last time. Almost every day I spend time thinking "You should message them" and then I don't because of my anxiety and depression and adhd. The closest I can apparently come to it is making a tumblr post in the hopes that one of the three friends who I think follow me on here will see it and go "Hmm, maybe he's not ignoring us because she doesn't want to hang with us. Maybe he just has anxiety and desperately wants to reach out and ask to play games together again!"

Doubt that will happen though.

I just always worry that I'll say the wrong thing and I sit there so afraid of saying the wrong thing that I never reach out at all, and all the friends I want to talk to or hang out with or be there for just drift away.

I wish I was a better person. I wish I was a braver person. I wish I could reach out to my friends.

[jeopardy-official]

What is correlation?

[starlightbright]

Getting REALLY tired of correlation = causation types of articles I keep seeing.

"Could owning a cat increase your chances of developing schizophrenia? Research shows that people with schizophrenia are more likely to own cats."

Cool. Um,

[aestheticayeeff]

I have a cross earring that I’ve worn for years. Years. That I seemed to have lost today. Not sure where it’s at. And I felt dread, because the last time I misplaced it and didn’t wear it for two days, my dad died in a freak car accident and much of my family got seriously injured.

And today I sat with my mom for five hours in the emergency room waiting area because she’s been having abdominal pain. Turns out it’s cancer. In more than one place.

I’m not sure what this means. I think God has truly forsaken me.

[antimony-ore]

A lot of this is conjecture from self-affirming biases.

Are you sure it's not that affirmative action makes those professions less appealing because people seemingly get boosted into the position these men want while they now have to struggle in comparison to achieve that same success, and so they're favoring traditionally "masculine" jobs that they don't have to take the hard route, simply because they are men, to find success in?

Surely it's a possibility and fits better than "all men are sexist and aren't interested in female dominated professions" which cannot be true.

Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? (Celeste Davis, Oct 6 2024)

"White flight is a term that describes how white people move out of neighborhoods when more people of color move in.

White flight is especially common when minority populations become the majority. That neighborhood then declines in value.

Male flight describes a similar phenomenon when large numbers of females enter a profession, group, hobby or industry—the men leave. That industry is then devalued.

Take veterinary school for example:

In 1969 almost all veterinary students were male at 89%.

By 1987, male enrollment was equal to female at 50%.

By 2009, male enrollment in veterinary schools had plummeted to 22.4%

A sociologist studying gender in veterinary schools, Dr. Anne Lincoln says that in an attempt to describe this drastic drop in male enrollment, many keep pointing to financial reasons like the debt-to-income ratio or the high cost of schooling.

But Lincoln’s research found that “men and women are equally affected by tuition and salaries.”

Her research shows that the reason fewer men are enrolling in veterinary school boils down to one factor: the number of women in the classroom.

For every 1% increase in the proportion of women in the student body, 1.7 fewer men applied.

One more woman applying was a greater deterrent than $1000 in extra tuition! (…)

Since males had dominated these professions for centuries, you would think they would leave slowly, hesitantly or maybe linger at 40%, 35%, 30%, but that’s not what happens.

Once the tipping point reaches majority female- the men flee. And boy do they flee!

It’s a slippery slope. When the number of women hits 60% the men who are there make a swift exit and other men stop joining.

Morty Schapiro, economist and former president of Northwestern University has noticed this trend when studying college enrollment numbers across universities:

“There’s a cliff you fall off once you become 60/40 female/male. It then becomes exponentially more difficult to recruit men.”

Now we’ve reached that 60% point of no return for colleges.

As we’ve seen with teachers, nurses and interior design, once an institution is majority female, the public perception of its value plummets.

Scanning through Reddit and Quora threads, many men seem to be in agreement - college is stupid and unnecessary.

A waste of time and money. You’re much better off going into the trades, a tech boot camp or becoming an entrepreneur. No need for college. (…)

When mostly men went to college? Prestigious. Aspirational. Important.

Now that mostly women go to college? Unnecessary. De-valued. A bad choice. (…)

School is now feminine. College is feminine. And rule #1 if you want to safely navigate this world as a man? Avoid the feminine.

But we don’t seem to want to talk about that."

[me-when-uncl]

she be wonkaing on my willy till i brutally cause major damage to four young children (this is a side effect to the wonkaing and is not correlated to my willy)