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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (16276)4/6/2010 11:25:08 PM
From: i-node4 Recommendations  Respond to of 42652
 
No, it is not, but correlation, if it's strong enough, will give a hint of causation..

No, what it does it creates an opportunity for spurious correlation to lead to erroneous conclusions. There are "strong" correlations all over the place that hint at nothing more than correlation.



To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (16276)4/7/2010 8:25:35 AM
From: Lane31 Recommendation  Respond to of 42652
 
correlation, if it's strong enough, will give a hint of causation.. More importantly, it will steer an experimental process in the direction of finding causation...all variables will be eliminated in the research process.

Exactly. That's its value.

It's really sad how often folks fail to differentiate between a hint of a potential cause and a cause. Particularly when they do it on something as important as trillion dollar health care legislation.


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