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Did I misread the article? They just found that it was uncorrelated for individuals who became religious during the study (that is, temporally there is no effec
by noobermin 5y ago
Did I misread the article? They just found that it was uncorrelated for individuals who became religious during the study (that is, temporally there is no effect) but positively correlated between people, and neither of those shows causality. For the temporal result, it at least negated it being causal.
- dash2 5y agoA zero correlation across time also doesn't prove that there isn't causality. Suppose that there's (e.g.) a positive relationship due to an unobserved third factor, and a negative relationship which is genuinely causal. These two could cancel out in the observed data.