A Quote by Tim Ferriss

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

Tim Ferriss

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Tim Ferriss
American - Author
Born: July 20, 1977

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

Charlie Munger

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

Correlation is not causation.

Kenneth L. Woodward

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

While our energy efficiency is improving, there is a very high correlation, almost near perfect correlation, between GDP growth, and energy usage.

Malcolm Turnbull

[Some of the people I'd met] were wonderful people as human beings, and some people were more difficult. I could not see a correlation between their particular genius in playing chess and music and mathematics, etc. ... with human qualities. Some were really good, wonderful people, and some were difficult characters, but there was no clear correlation. But when I met some spiritual masters, [I thought that] there had to be a correlation, and it turned out to be true.

Matthieu Ricard

The whole idea of what is evidence for causation in epidemiology cannot be separated from tTindustry understood that if they could raise doubt about how you could conclude something caused cancer, that they put so much effort into getting so many receptive public health authorities to say, "Well, causation requires that these five things be met." So that is, in fact, nonsense.

Devra Davis

There is an excellent correlation between giving society what it wants and making money, and almost no correlation between the desire to make money and how much money one makes.