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I was genuinely thrilled that the article brought up the points about causality vs. correlation. Then I was sad, because it reminded me how rare it is. Almost
by Deestan 16y ago
I was genuinely thrilled that the article brought up the points about causality vs. correlation.
Then I was sad, because it reminded me how rare it is. Almost every news article about research I've read the past 20 years has been of the form "Scientists have found that X causes Y, and here is the correlation along with some uneducated speculation."
- AmberShah 16y agohttp://xkcd.com/552/ http://xkcd.com/552/