"Bob Officer" -*-*.@.*-*- wrote in message ...
On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 23:27:24 +1100, in misc.health.alternative,
"carole" wrote:


"Bob Officer" -*-*.@.*-*- wrote in message news
On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:44:53 +1100, in misc.health.alternative,
"carole" wrote:


"Steelclaws" wrote in message 4.39...
"carole" wrote in
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There is no correlation between autism and increase in vaccinations.
You might just as well claim that there is a correlation between
increased rate of ice-cream sales and deaths by drowning in the
Scandinavian countries.

There is an increase in autism.
There is an increase in vaccination.
Therefore a correlation.

Your logic is faulty.

There is an increase of ice-cream sales in Scandinavian countries.
There is an increase of deaths by drowning deaths in Scandinavian
countries.
No correlation.

My understanding of the word "correlation" is two things that happen in tandem or simultaneously.
They don't have to prove that they are connected, merely that they happen at the same rate.

Close. They must have correspondence and show cause and effect and
they have to somehow be coupled to show causality. which it doesn't.

Not necessarily show cause and effect, only that they move in the same direction together.

No they don't Carole.

They can be opposites also. See how incomplete you knowledge base is?

Well yes, I thought opposite too ...which goes without saying, but you thought fit to jump in and say it anyway.
As per the master of the bleeding obvious.


If somebody says there is a correlation between the amount of something
and the incidence of another thing, it is said to show a
correlation.

The base of the great pyramid of giza (146.5 meters) and the common
Bic Crystal Pen is 14.65mm in length. Some people would say (infer)
there is some sort of correlation on the face of comparison of the
two figures, but there is none at all. They are considered unrelated.

Again you general lack of a working knowledge base shows you do not
understand the correct usage of the word "correlation".

To show a correlation doesn't means to observe they work in tandem which is grounds for a likely cause and effect and further study,
dickhead.


Doesn't prove there is causal effect necessarily, but you'd look for one.

I would. I would have to explore 1st if there is any actual
relationship between the two.

Well really?
And what did I just finish saying numb-nuts?

Bob officer is a legend in his own mind.

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