[phendrenad2]

Shark attacks increase relative to ice cream sales. Unless you have some theory that correlates the two, that you're willing to share, we shouldn't entertain this.

[usefulcat]

> Unless you have some theory that correlates the two

I guess you meant something more like "shows a causal relationship"?

Because they're already correlated, which I thought was the point..

[phendrenad2]

Well, I don't quite get the sophistry there, so I'll just agree that you're probably right in a way that has no bearing on the point.