Fallacies: Appeal to Ignorance, Correlation is Causation
3We finished up fallacies (for now) with two important ones:
Appeal to Ignorance, in which someone doesn't know something and draws a conclusion from this (which is different from an ignorant person making an argument!). Basically, if you don't know anything about X, you can't conclude anything about it.
Correlation is Causation, in which someone argues that because two variables seem to correlate with each other, one of them must be causing the other, or worse, that they both cause the other! At best, a correlation is a good starting point for investigation, but it is too weak to draw a causal relationship from it, since spurious correlations happen all the time, or there can be a hidden third variable that is causing both of the variables to change the same way (like summertime causing polio to go up, as well as ice cream eating and swimming pool usage).
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