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lhopki01 on March 29, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: UK triggers the official Brexit process in a lette...

This has been the longest period of Peace in Western Europe in history by a massive margin. That's evidence. Non top tier countries used to fight all the time in Europe before.

danielvf on March 29, 2017 [–]

No, that's correlation, not evidence. :)

lhopki01 on March 29, 2017 | [–]

Yes it is correlation but then there's not such thing as evidence in social sciences. Correlation is all we've got.

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