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		vlunkr on Nov 16, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Video game play is positively correlated with well... The title says "correlated" so they're not necessarily claiming causation.

rexreed on Nov 17, 2021 [–]

That's exactly my point. Without any causation, any correlation can be and often is spurious, so as to make the correlation meaningless.

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