"Statisticians will tell you that mud causes rain" — Yudea Pearl The main problem of correlation is that researchers often "start with a conclusion and then fi

"Statisticians will tell you that mud causes rain" — Yudea Pearl The main problem of correlation is that researchers often "start with a conclusion and then fill in the blanks". The thing is that several items can fill in these blanks. With coherence. Making predictions based on these techniques is often misleading & in some cases even dangerous. You can attribute the irreplicability of several "scientific findings" to the use of correlation. Correlation is great for " analysis" but not a way for drawing a conclusion