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by perl4ever 2447 days ago
I think the two behaviors should be understood as arbitrary for illustrative purposes. The point is, as I understand it, that you can decide that one causal relationship exists and another does not, and derive a model consistent with that and with the observed statistics.

Because, as people give lip service to constantly, but never seem to really adhere to, correlation is different from causation.