Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Correlation vs Causation

There is a strong correlation between companies I talk to and companies that decide to stop doing business in indiana. Actually the decide that before they talk to me, I give them a talk that makes it easier on their minds. I think that was the reason I was hired. No one knows what a good english teacher is, we are so rare, so before I was hired my credencials were a plus, but not the deciding factor. I was offered this job for my way of explaining what is wrong here and how doing away with evil people's jobs is good for the world. People really do lose sleep even when they shut down the last remaining mens jobs in kkk country just because they cant imagine anyone on earth is completely evil, but I tell them yeh these people really are that evil. If you have to read people's minds to see any good in them and nothing in their behaviour exhibits good, it really doesnt count. And I have discovered that most of the time when I see some good in these people they havent realized who I am or they are better liars than most I encounter.
Oh, shoot, the basketball program. Oh too bad. Now that may have been me. One of the reasons I was kicked out of campus houseing was for telling a basketball player to get out of the women's bathroom until the women were finished with it. Yes I did it like a woman with her skirt hiked up in the next stall while a man is looking at her there, but I dont see how that was inapropriate.
Actually he felt bad about it, was put up to it, didnt intend any wrong by it and apologized sincerely. He also didnt consider my reaction strange. But those who wanted him to go in the bathroom while I was in it (he really didnt know I was there) made an issue of my reaction, which is what they sent him in there for, so I would tell him not to watch me pee.
So is that correlation or causation?
We will need to see what the next several prosecutions are before we have that answer.