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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

While I can't necessarily disagree with your correlation≠causation argument...

I could just as easily claim that vehicle fuel economy improving during the 70's caused a decrease in female suicides.

Better gas mileage probably contributed a more than zero amount to that decrease.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

You could very well be right, but it's just impossible to control for such variables, so we can't say one way or the other with a degree of certainty. Especially considering that a 20% swing in numbers consists of a mere 1 or 2 people per 100,000 difference.