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A sobering thought! (files.mastodon.social)
submitted 2 years ago by Masimatutu@lemm.ee to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
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by @timoelliott@mastodon.social (source)

alt textCartoon of a professor in a classroom pointing at a blackboard saying "every single person who confuses correlation and causation ends up dying"

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[–] sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 47 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I found one study that found that 100% of people who breathe oxygen die, but I found another study that found that 100% of people who don't breathe oxygen die!

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can't live with it, can't live without it.

[–] radix@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

_Oxygen

what is it about it?_

[–] gbuttersnaps@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Technically not 100%, a modern study has shown that there are 8 billion people who breathe oxygen currently living!

[–] sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 7 points 2 years ago

I found a study where they were able to exclude those examples from the data set for various reasons. :P

[–] Masimatutu@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

Science is a hoax confirmed

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Oxygen kills, got it.

[–] Swim@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

holy shit batman!

[–] rostby@lemmy.fmhy.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

100% of gamblers quit right before they win

[–] sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 1 points 2 years ago

Every time!!

[–] Spzi@lemm.ee 26 points 2 years ago

The trick is to find a partner while you're still alive. Screw those single persons!

[–] aelwero@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Everyone who writes on a blackboard ends up dying

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I only use Post-it notes and I have never died.

[–] outer_spec@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

AI generated images are getting more impressive.

[–] Masimatutu@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Pretty sure Timo draws his own cartoons, what makes you believe it's AI?

[–] outer_spec@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

If you zoom into the shading and into the professor’s face, you’ll see that the lineart is all wonky.

edit: I checked out his blog, he also has ai generated cartoons there, and his non-ai generated cartoons are more clean and vector-y

[–] Masimatutu@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Looks pretty human to me ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Edit: Damn, well spotted! That is very impressive, though.

[–] LoamImprovement@ttrpg.network 4 points 2 years ago

Also the shmutz on that student's desk.

[–] Taringano@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Wow these are pretty funny actually

[–] Wilzax@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Is this that cel shading I've heard so much about?

[–] lugal@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

Coincidence? I don't think so

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

Dang, it sucks that death somehow causes misunderstandings of empiricism

[–] moistclump@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Spooky

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

I need this on a shirt

[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

that's not even correlation

[–] qaopjlll@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

Agreed, the correlation between 2 random variables is undefined if one of the variables is actually a constant (the formula reduces to 0/0)

[–] uis@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Every single person who does not confuse lives forever? Good.

[–] troglodytis@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

so does everyone else

And that, my friends, is the joke