But before talking math ... Judea Pearl uses a graph theoretic approach to logic that emphasizes using counter-factual understandings to get at the underlying structure of causation.

Feedback is intrigued by the news that stork and baby numbers appear to track one another, but continues to highlight the fact that correlation does not equal causation ...

This graph tells a very simple tale ... This chart is one of the best examples I’ve ever seen detailing how correlation and causation can have absolutely nothing to do with each other.

He created code to spot correlations in public data sets and pump out ugly but hilarious graphs in response. Who knew that the number of people who drowned by falling into a swimming-pool ...

While reporting on data, the difference between correlation and causation comes up often. It's an important statistical concept to grasp when reading any sort of study. We've found a graph that ...

Much of the time, people derive causation from correlation. Put another way, when two odd circumstances seem to align with one another, people assume that one causes the other. Such logic simply makes ...

Bett, the authors of the "Math Matters" paper whose key graph is excerpted above ... the inevitable comment-section remark, correlation is not causation. The fact that advancing in math is ...

Here for spreading far and wide is a graphical reminder of the important distinction between correlation and causation. Redditor Jasonp55 writes that he was practicing Graph Pad when he produced ...

CORRELATION, CAUSATION, AND BLOGGING....Kieran Healy is annoyed: You only have to hang around the world of social science research- or policy-related blogging for a few hours before you come ...

Although he doesn't express it in the language of counterfactual causality using directed acyclic graphs (and I'm not ... there should be a negative correlation between atmosphere and food.