Quotes About Correlation

But the most important thing to remember is that correlation does not show causation.

Just because two things happen in sequence, doesn't mean there's a casual relationship

It states that the more similar two objects are, the greater the sympathetic link. The greater the link, the more easily they influence each other.

Everything is connected to everything else, every story overlaps with every other story.

the conclusion is even stronger—it's not merely that there exist some people who are both happy and have lives with meaning. It's that there is a correlation: happy people are more likely to say that their lives are meaningful, and people who say that their lives are meaningful are more likely to say that they're happy.

That's the fallacy. Just because X happens and then Y happens, it doesn't mean that X caused Y.

Knowing causation is far more useful than knowing association.