Best correlation/causation explation:
It’s the Correlation vs Causation T-shirt.
I mean… clearly hes wearing a white shirt with ai or photoshop on top of it.
He’s wearing correlation without causation.
That will definitely not cause any controversy.
So that’s what Dr Breen has been up to.
Teaching students to not conflate correlation with causation by pointing out absurd assumptions of causality from real correlations.
My favourite argument is that; The amount of people buying ice creams and the amount of people drowning also looks like curves that follow each other. But less ices creams will not make less people drown. They both go up because of good weather conditions. They do not influence each other.
The historical version of this was the ww2 airplane patch job stats, where american bombers returning after getting hit were hit in specific areas and the statistician had to explain that those who returned despite that damage meant those were not the places to reinforce but the other areas of the plane makeing it more survivable, or more recently how Santa Monica CA almost removed crosswalks because that was where the highest pedestrian mortally rates were. In both those cases the people making the assumptions missed the bigger picture, for the planes that those who got hit in more sensitive spots got downed and for pedestrians getting killed at crosswalks that was because that is where pedestrians cross the street most of the time, almost leading to more deaths.
only 7 years to save for a house? well maybe i guess if you don’t have major emergencies. i’m going to go laugh madly in the corner now.
Man, David Harvey really went off the deep end huh
Clearly he has studied history.
I believe the correct answer to OPs question is "an object lesson in the difference between correlation and causality.
Or proof he doesn’t understand that difference, whichever applies.
this image is photoshopped. i can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.
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It’s an older meme, Sir, but it checks out.
That’s correct. I checked with David Photoshop and he confirmed it.
The amount of photoshops has also dramatically increased since 1970s
Hey, does he know John Reader and Jeff Lightroom?
Ah, a person of culture I see.
shoop da whoop
There is something about his face that doesn’t look natural but I’m not quite sure if it’s Photoshop or AI
Its resting DOOM face
They cut his fingers off. It’s definitely AI.
I see it too but it’s a little bit blurry on the details
Now that’s a meme I’ve not heard on a long time.
A imagem foi feita em photoshop. Posso falar pelos pixels e por que ja vi alguns shops no meu tempo.
Sim, concordo. Me impressiona o quanto a IA consegue economizar tempo na edição de fotos atualmente.
Hey, no wizard languages allowed. You could be casting a spell for all I know!
Hocus Pocus and Ala Kazaam! Musubibreakfast likes to eat ham!
It’s an old meme, sir, but it checks out.
I can’t debate it
Gonna need to call in the master at debatin.
There’s nothing to debate—it’s just an example of correlation.
Wait, did you know that there’s a direct correlation between the decline of Spirograph and the rise in gang activity?
The last time I played with a Spirograph was early 2020 so that’s my alibi. I’m not guilty of any of this gang activity you speak of.
I bet he thinks ice cream is correlated with the violent crime too
Violent crime precedes ice cream consumption. Clearly crime makes people hungry for ice cream.
You scream, I scream?
While I do not disagree with you, we shouldn’t underestimate the consumption of stolen ice cream which increases both.
Not ice crime!
I always violent crime before I ice cream
Due to the cost of icecream these days you may have to do some violent crime to pay for the icecream
clearly it is, thank you for the heads up
I like the Nic Cage movies and drowning deaths correlation more. Lol
ice crime
This needs a Hide The Pain Harold faceswap.
That “teacher” has interpretation, extrapolation, and interpolation issues.
its just an AI meme anyways
I don’t know that it’s AI, but the graph is obviously drawn over the picture. I think the original was just making of the professor for wearing a t-shirt over a flannel shirt
I lowkey don’t think it looks bad. Clearly I have just as little fashion sense as he does.
It’s like people forgot Photoshop exists
That does happen often, but this is an AI image, not photoshop
I’ll bite. How is it AI?
AI just isn’t capable of doing faces. if it were, you’d see faces.
The biggest giveaways are the weirdly pixelated faces (used to hide obvious AI elements) the awkward pose, the way the plaid pattern on the left side (his right arm, just before the white sleeve) merges together, the lack of any other version of this image existing (which is common for photo shopped images) and that when this is run through AI detection software it is flagged as such.
I’m pretty sure this image is not AI because of the background composition. While I agree the pattern on the right arm looks a little weird, that alone doesn’t proof it’s AI. It could be edited using AI but might just be photoshopped. Also you shouldn’t trust AI detection software, it doesn’t work.
Thats why its only one of a few reasons and not the only reason
