Correlation Quote by Gunnar Myrdal

We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him we need no more seek…

— Anonymous

“Predictions based on correlations lie at the heart of big data.”

— Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

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

— Mervyn King

“people not onlynotice feature correlations, but they can deduce reasons for them based on their knowledge of the way the world works" (Medin and…

— Anonymous

Much of what I do in my job is think about whether relationships we see in data are causal, as opposed to just reflecting…

— Emily Oster

All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.

— Edmund Burke

If we gather more and more data and establish more and more associations, however, we will not finally find that we know something. We…

— Kenneth Waltz

“And most big data programs do a poor job of identifying which correlations are more or less likely to be spurious. The use of…

— Alec J. Ross

“He watched her screen, her spell-checker halting at such spurious entries as "fuckwitism" and "Caliguliberal".”

— Cara McKenna

“Over time, I started to see correlations — the one that surprised me the most was that, after about three bad nights of sleep…

— Sebastian Marshall

Abstract ideas like equality and liberty have a spurious transparency, and can be used to derive pleasing theorems in the manner of Jean-Jacques Rousseau…

— Roger Scruton

All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect -…

— George Orwell