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To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (331240)12/19/2002 5:47:32 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
Correlation is not causation That is what they said about the link between smoking and cancer - purely statistical!



To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (331240)12/19/2002 8:34:00 PM
From: J_F_Shepard  Respond to of 769670
 
"Correlation is not causation."

Technically you're correct....but to ignore strong correlation is a bane of good science... If, on the other hand, you do not have correlation, you have nothing.. Sound reasoning is also very important in data analysis..


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