Decline v2

December 29, 2009

Okay, so maybe it's not a coincidence. Maybe I started insisting that because our relationship starting declining, or maybe some other factor caused both.

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A person is pointing at a graph, where the vertical axis is labelled with a heart. He's pointing at a part of the graph where it goes down suddenly.

Person: Our relationship entered its decline at this point.

Off-panel: That's when you started insisting correlation does not imply causation.

Person: Coincidence!

Title text: Okay, so maybe it's not a coincidence. Maybe I started insisting that because our relationship starting declining, or maybe some other factor caused both.