Comment 16S Re: Correlation, causation, and all that.

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Correlation, causation, and all that. (Score: 2, Insightful)

by danieldvorkin@pipedot.org on 2014-04-27 15:16 (#16R)

At this point the meme has so thoroughly permeated the culture that I really wish every mention of "correlation is not causation" (or "correlation does not imply causation," or any of its variants) came with a warning label explaining that in most cases, there's a whole lot more to the analysis than that.

Re: Correlation, causation, and all that. (Score: 2, Funny)

by danieldvorkin@pipedot.org on 2014-04-27 15:17 (#16S)

Or less gently, as my Slashdot .sig used to say, "The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using 'correlation is not causation' as an argument is close to 1."

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2014-04-27 16:26 Funny +1 songofthepogo@pipedot.org

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