A Quote by Kenneth L. Woodward

Correlation is not causation.

Kenneth L. Woodward

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Causation Correlation

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Kenneth L. Woodward

If ... we choose a group of social phenomena with no antecedent knowledge of the causation or absence of causation among them, then the calculation of correlation coefficients, total or partial, will not advance us a step toward evaluating the importance of the causes at work.

Ronald Fisher

I'm very familiar with how people can confuse correlation with causation.

Tim Ferriss

Don't confuse correlation and causation. Almost all great records eventually dwindle.

Charlie Munger

All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation.

Thomas Sowell

I have never been in a bad mood and near a beach ball at the same time. Causation? Correlation? Or fate?

Demetri Martin

Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there.’

Randall Munroe

We should be cautious about embracing data before it is published in the academic press, and must always avoid treating correlation as causation.

George Monbiot

The big mystery of Big Data is causation versus correlation.

Alexander Nix

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.

Kate Crawford

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!'

David Brin

Olympics are three times more likely to be employed than people of a similar age, ethnic and socioeconomic status who have not been participating. It's a correlation, not a causation as far as the statisticians go, but the fascinating question is; Is there something in participation in sports, in community-building, confidence building, self-image-building, strength building, social networking - that greatly enhance employability?

Timothy Shriver

The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories.

Simone Weil

There is a correlation between economic inequality and personal violence. The explanation for the correlation isn't completely clear; there are a number of possibilities.

Steven Pinker

Big data is great when you want to verify and quantify small data - as big data is all about seeking a correlation - small data about seeking the causation.