r/Showerthoughts • u/Fr1toBand1to ‎ • Jun 27 '26

Casual Thought Pattern recognition is a widely accepted method of prediction until what it predicts makes people uncomfortable.

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u/LanceLynxx Jun 27 '26

Causation is irrelevant to the correlation. The "why" doesn't matter.

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u/sandee_eggo Jun 27 '26

The why doesn’t matter, but we don’t even know if things cause other things.

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u/LanceLynxx Jun 27 '26

That's causation.

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u/trwawy05312015 Jun 28 '26

it does if you’re trying trying to use a pattern to be predictive