Does Reality Drive Straight Lines On Graphs, Or Do Straight Lines On Graphs Drive Reality? | Slate Star Codex

Here’s a graph of US air pollution over time: During the discussion of 90s environmentalism, some people pointed out that this showed the Clean Air Act didn’t matter. The trend is the s…

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