Correlation vs. Causation - Deepstash

Correlation vs. Causation

If B follows A, then A has caused B.

For example:

  • Assuming that since smoking and low grades go together, smoking causes low grades.
  • If you attend college, you will earn more money than if you decide to use the next four years in another way. The unwarranted assumption is that since college-trained people make more money, they make it because they went to college. However, we don’t know if these people would have made more money had they not gone to college.

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This book lays the groundwork for the many ways statistics are used to mislead people. Honest people must learn the tricks of statistics so that they can interpret data intelligently.

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