Correlation Vs Causation Quotes & Sayings

Anger was so much better than fear. To be the one inflicting pain was better than being in pain yourself. — Karina Halle

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

During last night's insomnia, as these thoughts came and went between my aching temples, I realised once again, what I had almost forgotten in this recent period of relative calm, that I tread a terribly tenuous, indeed almost non-existent soil spread over a pit full of shadows, whence the powers of darkness emerge at will to destroy my life ... — Franz Kafka

Your own Fear is the greatest obstacle you will ever face on your journey. Let your Faith be bigger than your Fear. — Eleanor Brown

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

I remember hearing in first grade, 'Oh, why does she get to skip school?' It wasn't like I suddenly started feeling different. I always knew that I was. I never felt I missed out. — Hayden Panettiere

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

When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages
hate them to the death. — Joseph Conrad

Correlation is not causation. — Kenneth L. Woodward

A person's sexual choice is the result and sum of their fundamental convictions. Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person they sleep with and I will tell you their valuation of themselves. No matter what corruption they're taught about the virtue of selflessness, sex is the most profoundly selfish of all acts, an act which they cannot perform for any motive but their own enjoyment — Ayn Rand

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

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

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

Never show a weakness; never show pain. The vulnerable get eaten. She would break down later when she was alone, but neither he nor anyone else would ever see it. — Ilona Andrews

It's great to be able to do shows like 'Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door,' which I think is entirely too long of a title. — Patrick Duffy

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

He's the only man I know who could start an argument with himself.
(on Craig Bellamy) — Bobby Robson