When Correlation Is Not Causation, But Something Much More Screwy Sampling error? Omitted variable bias? Bah, that's for first-year grad students.

05-13-2014 INFOGRAPHIC OF THE DAY Hilarious Graphs Prove That Correlation Isn’t Causation That is, unless we do have Nicholas Cage to blame for all those people drowning in swimming pools.

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 ...

Correlation is not causation, but it sure is a hint.” Here are some further examples demonstrating this logical fallacy: As ice cream sales increase, the rate of drowning deaths increases.

Bloggers are fond of yelling "correlation is not causation" at any piece of research that comes to a conclusion they find distasteful, but what they almost never do is actually read the paper in ...

In other words, the "math-->riches" equation is a little bit of causation and a little bit of correlation.

In the decades to come, the phrase correlation does not imply causation made its way into textbooks and academic journals, while the social sciences were made over with newfangled statistics.

Although he doesn't express it in the language of counterfactual causality using directed acyclic graphs (and I'm not really sure why not), several of Tyler Cowen's " Six Rules for Dining Out " in ...