Sentences with phrase «correlation for causation»

Basically don't look to studies that show correlation for causation.

And just as we frequently mistake correlation for causation, we're susceptible to what's called the «gambler's fallacy,» the belief that anomalies from expected outcomes in a random process are likely to be evened out by their opposites in the future — or, more simply, the idea that a roulette ball that's landed eight straight times on black is therefore more likely on the ninth spin to land on red.

That's why they feel unashamed to acknowledge that their rebuttal of the claim that teacher unions tend to harm educational outcomes confuses correlation for causation.

In the first place, it's not true; secondly, you seem to have confused correlation for causation.

This week's features: A professor's troubling politicization of epigenetics in Gizmodo, Men's Health quotes me on male fertility but mistakes correlation for causation.

Yet despite their own blue - ribbon educations, these leaders are making a classic rookie blunder: They mistake correlation for causation.