Failure Quote by Mervyn King

“Correlation does not imply causation,”

— Sean Chercover

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

“The real trouble begins when confirmation bias distorts your active pursuit of facts.”

— David McRaney

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

— Tim Ferriss

Those who use 'Correlation is not the same as causation' as a magic incantation to dismiss all fact-using professions are fools holding a lit…

— David Brin

“Rather than simply ignoring contradictory information, we often examine it particularly closely. The end product of this intense scrutiny is that the contradictory information…

— Thomas Gilovich

Correlation is not causation.

— Anonymous

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

“Causality = Correlation + Assumptions”

— J.N. Berkemeijer

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

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

— Siri Hustvedt