correlation does not equal causation.

indeed it does not.

but correlation can lead to discovering causation or even larger phenomena. which is why i pay attention to “it” when appropriate. do you?

  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Correlation doesn’t equal causation—but then again, nothing else does either.

    Causality is an emergent property, like entropy: it’s not in the physical world, it’s in our mental model of it. And that model is built on correlations.