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What the hell happened around 2010? Smartphones? (media.piefed.world)

submitted 3 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world to c/justpost@lemmy.world

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[–] Lightfire228@pawb.social 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Correlation is not causation

There could be a 3rd driving force that's causing both trends, among other possible explanations

[–] webpack@ani.social 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think the general consensus is that bigger and more dangerous cars causes more pedestrian deaths.

[–] Lightfire228@pawb.social 3 points 2 months ago

I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case

but a correlation (as presented in the first comment) is not a valid explanation (again, as is presented in the comment)

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 3 points 2 months ago

It's good practice 👍🏼 but I probably go for the trucks explanation here