Cases Quote by Steven Pinker

“To the degree that they have access to the devices we use to mediate our relation to everyday life, companies deploy algorithms based on…

— Anonymous

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

— Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces.

— Gunnar Myrdal

“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

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

“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

My central thesis is that combining increased temporal and spatial resolution in MRI techniques with increasingly powerful data correlation techniques will allow the derivation…

— Mary Lou Jepsen

The moral, then, is that familiar categories of behavior - marriage customs, food taboos, folk superstitions, and so on - certainly do vary across…

— Steven Pinker

Genetically influenced behavior is not necessarily good and not necessarily unchangeable. Explanations of bad behavior that appeal to genes do not absolve a person…

— Steven Pinker