Fools Quote by David Brin

“Correlation does not imply causation,”

— Sean Chercover

I'm very familiar with how people can confuse correlation with causation.

— Tim Ferriss

Correlation is not causation.

— Anonymous

Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.

— Siri Hustvedt

Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there.’

— Randall Munroe

“Most of you will have heard the maxim "correlation does not imply causation." Just because two variables have a statistical relationship with each other…

— Nate Silver

When we see a strong correlation, and the matter at-hand is something with major health or safety or security implications, then we are behooved…

— David Brin

“Failure to understand the context in which correlations are observed leads to false conclusions. The”

— Mervyn King

“Correlationism is like a mixing desk in a music recording studio. It has two faders: the correlator and the correlatee.”

— Timothy Morton

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

— Thomas Sowell

A great book seeks to explain causality, not correlation. It works to point out the circumstances in which it works, and where it doesn't.…

— Anonymous

The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning.

— Stephen Jay Gould