Quotes About Correlation And Causation

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

Steven D. Levitt

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

Charlie Munger

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Demetri Martin

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

Thomas Sowell

#7. Man is alone in the world, in tremendous eternal isolation. He has no object outside himself; lives for nothing else; he is far removed from being the slave of his wishes, of his abilities, of his necessities; he stands far above social ethics; he is alone. Thus he becomes one and all.

Otto Weininger

#8. 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

#9. People who don't believe in God may have their own way of justifying some bad act they have committed.

Lee Greenwood

#10. Correlation is not causation.

Kenneth L. Woodward

#11. Revolutions in Prussia are started by kings, and since it is a revolution, it is better to start it ourselves than to suffer of it

Otto Von Bismarck

#12. I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.

Vera Farmiga

#13. Formalized rules of manners were so great because they left no room for basic human haplessness. They allowed us to circumvent our natural boorish tendency to disregard the feelings of others.

Lynn Coady

#14. You are not obligated to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and find a way to conquer the odds, to be stronger or transform yourself into some better version of yourself. The pain you are feeling (whatever the degree) may be a reminder that things are not as they should be.

Tullian Tchividjian