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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (230692)	9/1/2013 8:18:32 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542201

Why can't one make recommendations based on probability as long as their not misrepresented as being causal? There are enough misunderstandings in that statement for me to sign you up for my wife's undergraduate methods classes. Causality is a theoretical construct tested by the plausibility of the links and the use of the appropriate control variables. All the math involved will be probability statements. Problems of correlation being confused with causation tend to start with single variable tables but don't end there.