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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
No, you mean there may be a coincidence, but a coincidence does not mean a correlation.
Turns out, however, that there isn't even a coincidence. As I've pointed out, abortion rates were falling for six years before the welfare reform act was passed, and may have been rising in more recent years -- the years in which the harsher aspects of welfare reform (i.e. the five-year limits) actually began to take effect.
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No, I meant correlation is not causation. Truly. And I think you are using "coincidence" as the same thing as correlation. Where there's correlation between two or more things, there may or may not be a relationship. Coincidence implies (generally; I'm not sure if you are using it in the "coincidence? I think
not" sense or the "the co-incidence [pronounced, I think, with the emphasis on the first, not the second syllable] between blah and blah" sense) that there is not a relationship. Causation means that there is definitely a relationship.
Anyway, I don't think one can "correlate a relationship" in any event.
Wow, is chatting with you fun. We should do this more often.
ETA check out definition of coincidence --
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionar...va=coincidence
God I hate face time.
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