[HN Gopher] The opposite of a shibboleth is a frisco
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       The opposite of a shibboleth is a frisco
        
       Author : deegles
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2024-01-02 18:43 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | senkora wrote:
       | Frisco is also a city in Texas, so named because it was on the
       | path of a railroad headed to San Francisco.
        
         | RecycledEle wrote:
         | I never knew where Frisco, TX got its name.
         | 
         | Thank You.
        
       | Cpoll wrote:
       | > It's not like scientists are physically incapable of saying
       | "correlation does not imply causation," in the sense that
       | Ephraimites were presumably physically incapable of pronouncing
       | the word "shibboleth." It's just that no real scientists would.
       | 
       | Genuinely curious: What do real scientists say instead at the
       | myriad of pop-science articles that superimpose two graphs and
       | declare that jello cures laryngitis?
        
         | RecycledEle wrote:
         | If someone dies not say "Correlation does not imply causation"
         | then they are a liberal arts major.
         | 
         | All scientists say "correlation does not imply causation."
        
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