I read it as in movies where a grandmaster "checkmate" another. While you do win by checkmating, most GM matches end long before it, and the losing party will r

I read it as in movies where a grandmaster "checkmate" another. While you do win by checkmating, most GM matches end long before it, and the losing party will resign. Not resigning when under mate in 6 can be seen as an insult that the winning GM will somehow miss the winning line like a novice and this will waste time for both parties. Although this does still happen. Back to the topic, I can see saying "correlation does not imply causation" be seen as an insult that the scientist miss a critical principle like a novice and this will waste time for both parties. Although regrettably it looks like lots of them do miss this critical principle, so this saying may still need to be repeated more often.