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That's not a randomized controlled trial though. You might find a correlation, but you couldn't actually establish causation, or eliminate hidden variables.
by CydeWeys 2y ago
That's not a randomized controlled trial though. You might find a correlation, but you couldn't actually establish causation, or eliminate hidden variables.
- hombre_fatal 2y agoWe have to get over this false meme where people think RCTs prove causation and the rest prove correlation. An RCT doesn’t prove causation, it only might observe another correlation that contributes to our causal inferences based on the convergence of evidence. We don’t have RCTs for most things that you take for granted.
- CydeWeys 2y agoWell, an observational-only study proves even less.