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foolm0r0n posted...

That's not actually what it is in this case.

Muffin has a conclusion that he wants evidence for, and this is evidence that matches his conclusion, so he accepts it as part of his truth. That's why he would never blame their gender, their whiteness, or the fact they all are angry on the internet, which are all also correlations here.

that's a better way of putting it but yeah, that's what i meant. like i pointed out in one of the previous topics, this is his reasoning:

"turns out the majority of the shooters have played a lot of GTA? hm, interesting, we should look into this to see if there's any kind of causation there."

"turns out the majority of the shooters were raised by single moms? MORE EVIDENCE THAT SINGLE MOMS ARE EVIL QED."

a good comparison would be jack thompson - he uses the fact that the shooters played GTA as "evidence" that video games are evil. he just hates video games (in the same way muffin hates single moms), so he blames the shootings on a different thing than muffin does.
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