You can see that as the number of pirates in the world has decreased over the past 130 years, global warming has gotten steadily worse. In fact, this makes it entirely clear that if you truly want to stop global warming, the most impactful thing to do is -- become a pirate. Hope you're laughing. My husband told me this wonderful premise a few months ago, and I couldn't resist sharing it with you, for a very specific reason. I'm fascinated by why it's so funny. I believe it's because it's an only slightly more extreme version of the fake logic we hear every day -- the conclusions that pass for critical thinking in these days of completely unleashed 24-7 communication. ... A very wise and smart woman who is a political scientist at Syracuse University, teaches a statistics class to freshmen, where she endeavors to teach them critical thinking. She talks about this as being the most common error in logic: confusing simultaneity with causality. In other words, assuming that because two things are happening at the same time, they exist in a cause and effect relationship with each other.
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