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Post hoc ergo propter hoc or False Cause – Correlation does not imply causation

Posted on February 11, 2012 by Peter Ellerton

Another legend from Dilbert.

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Director of the University of Queensland Critical Thinking Project and Lecturer in Critical Thinking.
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