On Thursday 30 October 2008, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote: [snip] > when i read shiv's original post i thought he was being sarcastic, and > didn't really think the US measures were any good, just that they looked > good to people. maybe he still is? otherwise this is classic confusion > between causality and correlation. and not even good correlation, at
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