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comte7092 | 8 months ago

The quote is typically brought up when there isn’t a direct causal relationship between two variables, not when the causality is reversed. e.g. ice cream sales and drownings. In both cases heat drives behavior, but neither cause each other.

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tshaddox|8 months ago

I’d say reverse causality is a very common example, particularly in health and medicine (e.g. illegal drug use and psychiatric disorders).