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More nuanced view of causation #49

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patwater opened this issue Apr 3, 2018 · 1 comment

patwater commented Apr 3, 2018

"Correlation doesn't equal causation, and unless you have a good story to tell along with your data visualization, don't lead people astray."

Note being able to tell a story shouldn't be the standard: https://www.ted.com/talks/tyler_cowen_be_suspicious_of_stories

Necessary but not sufficient here.

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bensheldon commented Apr 3, 2018

Oooh, nice link!

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