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??? Who ever said correlation => not causation.
by mc3 7y ago
??? Who ever said correlation => not causation.
- throwaway2048 7y agoPretty much every internet comment section for the last 2 decades.
- mc3 7y agoI don't think so. `Correlation => Causation` is used all the time - this is the bread and butter of clickbait headlines and articles "new study shows that...", but `Correlation => ^Causation` requires some sophistication to state ... while being wrong at the same time. Maybe a tactic used to mislead? I haven't seen it ever used. To be clear `Correlation => ^Causation` is different to `Correlation => TRUE`. (In other words, there is nothing you can deduce from correlation alone).