Now here's where we get to the math. The logician, computer scientist, and fellow UCLA faculty Judea Pearl uses a graph theoretic approach to logic that emphasizes using counter-factual ...

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.

The graph below, again from Google Books, shows the shift in language that marked this change in spirit: Up until the early 1900s, causation showed up more often than correlation in the corpus ...

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. SHARE ...

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 ...

Conversely, if you understand how this process works you can exploit it both analytically and practically. Although he doesn't express it in the language of counterfactual causality using directed ...