But reality says that beauty is correlated with fitness, which is correlated with intelligence. Beautiful people should tend to be smart. I think there is some positive beauty/intelligence correlation.
“is correlated with” is not transitive, the conclusion is true, but it doesn’t follow from the premises.
I guess this is exactly the sort of comment that the original post was supposed to be warning people against making—does the fact that I’ve noticed this, and am pointing it out here in apology help to mitigate it?
“is correlated with” is not transitive, the conclusion is true, but it doesn’t follow from the premises.
I guess this is exactly the sort of comment that the original post was supposed to be warning people against making—does the fact that I’ve noticed this, and am pointing it out here in apology help to mitigate it?