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Isn't "finding patterns where there are none" more akin to finding correlation in the first place, than to making the correlation->causation jump?
by rosetremiere 5y ago
Isn't "finding patterns where there are none" more akin to finding correlation in the first place, than to making the correlation->causation jump?
- funklute 5y agoWell, both really. But in practice, erroneously identifying correlations doesn't tend to be quite so big a problem as conflating correlation with causation. The former is easy to address with strict data recording, whereas the latter is more of a conceptual thing, and requires some deeper thinking that often goes against intuition.