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It's not a direct synonym but it's also where my mind went after reading the title
So what other word would you have used for an article about a statistical prediction ? This is a scientific text, "to predict" has a well-understood meaning within the field of statistics and it's not a synonym for "causes".
There has been some psychological research which hints at this relation of how diseases from outsiders bias decisions against those communities. The literature seems to suggest that it's an evolutionary response to protect the community and these biases are difficult to detect because they are so innate in how we assess risk and process threats to a group. I was just saying the other day that we're one Coronovirus-li…
I'm actually surprised that we haven't had a government try to access that kind of data. They've been generally going at it for all kinds of "small" stuff, burglary, riots, and they're not trying to get their hands on it to combat a pandemic?
Edit: Not quite as big brothery as I thought it would be https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/coronaviru...
The elephant in the room is almost certainly that poverty causes both parasites and authoritarianism
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It's not a direct synonym but it's also where my mind went after reading the title
So what other word would you have used for an article about a statistical prediction ? This is a scientific text, "to predict" has a well-understood meaning within the field of statistics and it's not a synonym for "causes".
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So what other word would you have used for an article about a statistical prediction ? This is a scientific text, "to predict" has a well-understood meaning within the field of statistics and it's not a synonym for "causes".
"correlates"
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My point is that the way it's phrased guides the mind to jump to a particular conclusion.
No, you jumped to a conclusion. "Predicts" is not a synonym of "causes," and any confusion you may experience would be solved by reading what they wrote.
The elephant in the room is almost certainly that poverty causes both parasites and authoritarianism
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No, you jumped to a conclusion. "Predicts" is not a synonym of "causes," and any confusion you may experience would be solved by reading what they wrote.
You're intentionally ignoring what I'm saying and I'm not going to continue engaging with it.
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Or is it authoritarianism that causes poverty and parasites?
Why not parasites causing both poverty and authoritarianism? A big part of the reason Bill Gates is so committed to fighting parasite diseases like Malaria is that there's strong evidence that this alleviates poverty. After all, it makes sense when you consider the effects a case of Malaria would have on a family: children unable to go to school, adults unable to work. If the baseline load of Malaria cases is high en…
LOL. A billionaire rarely fights authoritarianism.