Comment 16R 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.

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2014-04-27 16:25 Insightful +1 songofthepogo@pipedot.org

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