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Foundation Series: The Difference Between Correlation and Causality

Posted on: October 16, 2007

One of the most common mistakes people make when looking at data is to jump to conclusions about the data. We all live in a world of cause and effect. It is only natural that when we see data that appears to show cause and effect, we assume that it […]

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Outside reading: correlation and causality

Posted on: February 7, 2006

A while ago, we asked you to send us links to good blogs. Jeff Kinsey sent us a link to his blog, Ski’s throughput on command. We found this post on logical thinking processes which is good. Thanks Ski for sending us the link!

Their post discusses the differences between causality and correlation of events.

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