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by 411111111111111 1081 days ago
you're extrapolation, thus you're using it as a causation.

Let me give you an example:

Swiss cheese has holes, by studying its properties you can find a correlation between the size of the cheese and the total volume of holes.

You do another study and find that as you increase the size of the holes the cheese, you're left with less grams of cheese.

by your logic, which extrapolates between these two unrelated studies finding different correlations, you can confidently state this:

  more cheese correlates with more holes
  more holes correlates with less cheese

  more cheese == less cheese
outstanding logic, indeed.