Showing posts with label correlations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label correlations. Show all posts

Monday, July 3, 2017

Philosophy Wire: To be or not to… Facebook? Complicated answers… Irrelevant relevant correlations…


Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2017-07-03]: Is social media good for you, or bad? Well, it's complicated. A study of 12 million Facebook users suggests that using Facebook is associated with living longer - when it serves to maintain and enhance your real-world social ties. [1] Irrelevant correlations. Relevant correlations. Who can decide? Check your feelings. You know that question has no answer. You are just afraid to admit it… Because you want to have correlations. You somehow feel that this is the way it is supposed to be. But if you cannot distinguish the correct from the incorrect, then only one thing can be true: That they are all valid…

Eat ice cream.
Be careful of the sharks…

PS. Check here for this weird correlation.

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Monday, June 23, 2014

Philosophy Wire: (Irrelevant?) Correlations...



Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-06-23]: Software discovers correlations between unrelated events. [1, 2, 3] But if there is a correlation why are they... unrelated? Even after all these years of "progress", the best way to "see" something is still just to... choose to see it. Without any reason. Or maybe there is a reason? Let me check the imports of Norwegian oil...

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