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You can’t have causation without correlation. Not saying that’s that case here, but people like to casually throw around “correlation is not causation” as if p
by orev 6y ago
You can’t have causation without correlation.
Not saying that’s that case here, but people like to casually throw around “correlation is not causation” as if pointing out the logical fallacy is itself a sufficient rebuttal.
- wcoenen 6y agoI didn't really mean it as a "rebuttal", as the paper is careful about not claiming any causal link. I meant it as a warning to the reader to be careful about drawing conclusions like that. To establish causation you'd need a study where alcohol consumption of the subjects is controlled by the experimenters. That would eliminate the effect of confounding factors that influence both alcohol consumption and cognitive function.