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Correlation != causation. I expected HN readers to know that.

• read_if_gay_ 6y ago
  GP said it seems, and just because correlation doesn't imply causation doesn't mean everything that correlates literally cannot have a causal relationship.
  • Twisol 6y ago
    In other words... just because there's a correlation between things being correlated and things not being causally related, that doesn't mean that correlation causally implies acausality?
  • f6v 6y ago
    The default mode when operating with data is to assume there’s no causation. Doing otherwise creates room for too many misconceptions and erroneous interpretations.
    • read_if_gay_ 6y ago
      Clearly you can make a hypothesis though.