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Linking correlation to causation with power laws and scale free systems
- striglia 15y agoAlways cool to see articles trying to tease apart correlation from causation. That said, I am automatically suspicious of any publications mentioning power laws, since they make for attractive stories and can easily be fit to data which is not actually generated from a power law. See http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/491.html http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/491.html for an excellent discussion.