Causation Vs Correlation Quotes & Sayings

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

If people let other people alone, people would be better off. It's always people that screw things up for people anyway. — Nora Roberts

Once it's everybody's responsibility and not just the household's we start making better investments. — Melissa Harris-Perry

However, correlation does not necessarily imply causation. The fact that people tend to carry umbrellas when it rains creates a high correlation between umbrella carrying and rain showers. However, it is obvious that choosing to carry an umbrella does not cause rainfall. — Eugene Soltes

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

There are few things quite so boring as being religious, but there is nothing quite so exciting as being a Christian! — W. Ian Thomas

Most of you will have heard the maxim "correlation does not imply causation." Just because two variables have a statistical relationship with each other does not mean that one is responsible for the other. For instance, ice cream sales and forest fires are correlated because both occur more often in the summer heat. But there is no causation; you don't light a patch of the Montana brush on fire when you buy a pint of Haagan-Dazs. — Nate Silver

Late summer is perfect for classic mysteries - think of Raymond Chandler's hot Santa Anas and Agatha Christie's Mediterranean resorts - while big ambitious works of nonfiction are best approached in September and early October, when we still feel energetic and the grass no longer needs to be cut. — Michael Dirda

Correlation is not causation. — Kenneth L. Woodward

I love writing and photography and the natural world that inspires them both. I'm working on getting as lost as I can in the beauty before it is completely wiped clean by the madness of man. — Jason Reeves

A spiritually optimistic point of view holds that the universe is woven out of a fabric of love. Everything that is happening is ultimately for the good if we're willing to face it head-on and use our adversities for soul growth. — Joan Z. Borysenko

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist. — Jean Cocteau

All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation. — Thomas Sowell

How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently? — Amy Tan

You will never get to your destination on time if choose to walk two paths through life. — Shannon L. Alder

There is a difference between correlation and causation - many people mistake one for the other — Steven D. Levitt

This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man. — Yelawolf

Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation ... Not all are destined to get there ... but our beating hearts drive us deep down, right into the pit of creation. — Paul Klee

I have never been in a bad mood and near a beach ball at the same time. Causation? Correlation? Or fate? — Demetri Martin

big-bang reproduction, or semelparity: a single reproductive effort, followed by preprogrammed death. — Jared Diamond

There is the first satisfaction of arranging it on a bit of paper; after many, many false tries, false moves, finally you have the sentence you recognize as the one you are looking for. — Vladimir Nabokov

One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten. — Thomas Sowell

Distinguishing between correlation and causation is critical to our understanding of the biology and conservation of monarchs and milkweeds. Turning back to our study of chocolate: countrywide spending on science also correlates with per capita income, the latter of which correlates with chocolate consumption (at least in the Western world). Even so, I would happily participate in a controlled study to determine the influence of chocolate consumption on scientific discoveries. — Anurag Agrawal

It is my ignorance of God's design that makes me quarrel with him. — John Flavel