from day 08/10/2012

The spread of “Correlation does not imply causation”

Daniel Engber's short article at Slate on the success of the misleading formula "correlation does not imply causation" is doubly relevant here: as an example of the epidemiology of a scientific idea, and as a corrective to a cliché all too common in the social sciences: "So how did a stats-class ...

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