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Correlation is not causation.
All is bound by the law of causation
The law of Karma is the law of causation.
Materialists and madmen never have doubts.
The big mystery of Big Data is causation versus correlation.
I'm very familiar with how people can confuse correlation with causation.
Everything, both mental and physical, is rigidly bound by the law of causation.
From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.
Don't confuse correlation and causation. Almost all great records eventually dwindle.
I do absolutely believe that the climate is changing. I'm not prepared to determine causation.
Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.
All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation.
It goes without saying that all mental illnesses are neurologically instantiated. But this says nothing about their causation.
Everything that we know is within our universe, and everything within our universe is moulded by the conditions of space, time, and causation.
We should be cautious about embracing data before it is published in the academic press, and must always avoid treating correlation as causation.
It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.
Biases and blind spots exist in big data as much as they do in individual perceptions and experiences. Yet there is a problematic belief that bigger data is always better data and that correlation is as good as causation.
Most psychiatrists assume that mental illnesses such as depression are caused by chemical imbalances in the brain, which can be treated by drugs. But most psychotherapy doesn't address the social causation of mental illness either.
Those who use 'Correlation is not the same as causation' as a magic incantation to dismiss all fact-using professions are fools holding a lit match in one hand and an open gas can in the other, screaming, 'One has nothing to do with the other!'
Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.
Perhaps looking out through big baby eyes - if we could - would not be as revelatory experience as many imagine. We might see a world inhabited by objects and people, a world infused with causation, agency, and morality - a world that would surprise us not by its freshness but by its familiarity.