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."
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."