{"id":49645,"date":"2016-04-11T19:11:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T19:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=49645"},"modified":"2016-04-11T19:11:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T19:11:07","slug":"correlation-is-not-causation-but-it-may-provide-irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=49645","title":{"rendered":"Correlation is not causation &#8212; but it may provide irony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; two matters concerning naval intelligence ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a chewable <strong>DoubleTweet<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Amid Shocking Chinese Spy Case, Our Navy Can No Longer Be Trusted <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lk7LO1JhkO\">https:\/\/t.co\/lk7LO1JhkO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; J. Scott Shipman (@jscottshipman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jscottshipman\/status\/719593945651613697\">April 11, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Correlate that with:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Director of Naval Intelligence does not have a security clearance. Has &quot;less access to secrets than an ensign.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2yY0fmfKPE\">https:\/\/t.co\/2yY0fmfKPE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michael Bayer (@mbayer1248) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mbayer1248\/status\/693135189611003905\">January 29, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; and you just might glimpse what <strong>Carl Jung<\/strong> termed an &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Synchronicity-Connecting-Principle-Collected-Extracts\/dp\/0691150508\">acausal connecting principle<\/a>&#8221; or &#8220;acausal parallelism&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>For dessert, how&#8217;s this for a <strong>serpent biting its own tail<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-cards=\"hidden\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is pretty nuts. The Director of Navy Intelligence can&#39;t even read his own reports. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2yY0fmfKPE\">https:\/\/t.co\/2yY0fmfKPE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hveL2eVnGK\">pic.twitter.com\/hveL2eVnGK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michael Bayer (@mbayer1248) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mbayer1248\/status\/693135514791231488\">January 29, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; two matters concerning naval intelligence ] . Here&#8217;s a chewable DoubleTweet: Amid Shocking Chinese Spy Case, Our Navy Can No Longer Be Trusted https:\/\/t.co\/lk7LO1JhkO &mdash; J. Scott Shipman (@jscottshipman) April 11, 2016 Correlate that with: The Director of Naval Intelligence does not have a security clearance. Has &quot;less access to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,627,1151,47,618,374,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-doublequotes","category-doubletweets","category-intelligence","category-j-scott-shipman","category-navy","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49645"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49650,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49645\/revisions\/49650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}