Timeline for Correlation vs Causation
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| Jan 23, 2012 at 1:35 | comment | added | Winston Ewert | that surprises me. Do you have a reference to back it up? | |
| Jan 23, 2012 at 1:34 | comment | added | Noirin | In mathematics, that's correctly labeled correlation, because the parents don't directly cause the house. In English, it can reasonably be labeled causation. | |
| Jan 23, 2012 at 1:29 | comment | added | Winston Ewert | The question isn't whether we have data to infer the relationship. The question if we infer that the same parents tend to cause the same values which tends to cause the same house, is that correctly labeled causation or correlation? | |
| Jan 23, 2012 at 1:19 | history | answered | Noirin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |