tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6867503761315699133.post3356982585655519218..comments2023-09-25T07:37:47.803-04:00Comments on Plumbum et Circenses: Road Ragin'ZerCoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08347518441827166007noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6867503761315699133.post-41193114216782036372010-04-06T21:46:44.611-04:002010-04-06T21:46:44.611-04:00I agree with your comments- especially your reason...I agree with your comments- especially your reasonable, sensible suggestion at the end of the post- and I think too many people, both providers and consumers of statistics, confuse correlation with causation. I'll point to the old example of ice cream sales and murder rates, which are positively correlated only because ice cream consumption and murders both increase during the warm summer months, when days are longer, temperatures (and tempers) are higher, and people spend more time outside. Obviously, eating ice cream does not incite one to kill, but it would appear that some people are in this case attempting to at least tacitly imply that the same false causation applies to firearms and road rage.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05923803075133551852noreply@blogger.com