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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 54 points 11 months 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!

[–] gbuttersnaps@programming.dev 16 points 11 months 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 11 months ago

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

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] radix@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

_Oxygen


what is it about it?_

[–] Masimatutu@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

Science is a hoax confirmed

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Oxygen kills, got it.

[–] Swim@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago

holy shit batman!

[–] rostby@lemmy.fmhy.net 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

100% of gamblers quit right before they win

[–] sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 1 points 11 months ago