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Posted on 2014.03.182014.03.18

Correlation vs causation: the danger of stats

So…. Getting rid of IE will stop murders. Right?

I’ve always thought that statistics is one of the most important, yet underrepresented, cores of engineering.  Stats matter.  But there’s a Great Danger in using stats naively – the danger of confusing correlation and causation.

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