Correlation Vs Causation Quotes

#1. One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten.

Thomas Sowell

#2. I feel always that I am a prisoner.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#3. If ... we choose a group of social phenomena with no antecedent knowledge of the causation or absence of causation among them, then the calculation of correlation coefficients, total or partial, will not advance us a step toward evaluating the importance of the causes at work.

Ronald Fisher

#4. I have never been in a bad mood and near a beach ball at the same time. Causation? Correlation? Or fate?

Demetri Martin

#5. There is a difference between correlation and causation - many people mistake one for the other

Steven D. Levitt

#6. Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.

Barbara Sher

#7. If you find him," she whispered, "when you find my father - give him this." She bent and kissed me, fiercely, gently, then straightened and turned me toward the stone. "Go, Mama," she said, breathless. "I love you. Go!

Diana Gabaldon

#8. All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation.

Thomas Sowell

#9. Death can be jolly well inconvenient, if you ask me.

Gail Carriger

#10. In theatre, the main objective is to make the art happy, not the audience! If you have to choose between the audience and the art, always choose the second! You must know that the audience will constantly pull you down; resist it and fly at the heights like an eagle!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. Lack of orders is no excuse for inaction.

George S. Patton

#12. You must be so thoroughly immersed in the given circumstances of the play, then you decide what it is at any given moment what that the actor wants.

Constantin Stanislavski

#13. Don't confuse correlation and causation. Almost all great records eventually dwindle ...

Charlie Munger

#14. However, correlation does not necessarily imply causation. The fact that people tend to carry umbrellas when it rains creates a high correlation between umbrella carrying and rain showers. However, it is obvious that choosing to carry an umbrella does not cause rainfall.

Eugene Soltes

#15. Correlation is not causation.

Kenneth L. Woodward

#16. I was starting to think I was making up memories, just to have answers.
Our brain does that sometimes.
Or at least mine does.

David Levithan

#17. My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. Now she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would never have lost him.

Margaret Mitchell

#19. There are some things that could hold it together, notably oil revenues. But at the moment, the much vaunted surge has had a measure of success primarily, to my mind, because Sunni and Shia Iraqis hate and fear each other more these days than they hate and fear the Americans.

Patrick Cockburn