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| 559570b | One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten. | correlation statistics | Thomas Sowell | |
| 086c0ba | Cars with flames painted on the hood might get more speeding tickets. Are the flames making the car go fast? No. Certain things just go together. And when they do, they are correlated. It is the darling of all human errors to assume, without proper testing, that one is the cause of the other. | science correlation entomology monarch-butterflies | Barbara Kingsolver |