Assumptions Quote by J.N. Berkemeijer

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

“Correlation does not imply causation,”

— Sean Chercover

When the world changes, correlation goes away… Causals are what endure.

— Geoffrey Nunberg

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

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

— Tim Ferriss

Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some physicists that…

— Max Planck

“The prominence of causal intuitions is a recurrent theme in this book because people are prone to apply causal thinking inappropriately, to situations that…

— Daniel Kahneman

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

“Every object and event must have a plausible chain of causality that leads to it.”

— S.F. Chapman

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

— Mervyn King

In economics, it is easier to agree on the data than to agree on causality.

— Moshe Vardi

Correlation is not causation.

— Anonymous