Paul Bloom

Perhaps looking out through big baby eyes - if we could - would not be as revelatory experience as many imagine. We might see a world inhabited by objects and people, a world infused with causation, agency, and morality - a world that would surprise us not by its freshness but by its familiarity.

Canadian Psychologist

Trofim Lysenko

Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.

Russian Celebrity

Kate Crawford

Biases and blind spots exist in big data as much as they do in individual perceptions and experiences. Yet there is a problematic belief that bigger data is always better data and that correlation is as good as causation.

Australian Writer

John Burroughs

It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.

American Author

George Monbiot

We should be cautious about embracing data before it is published in the academic press, and must always avoid treating correlation as causation.

British Writer

Thomas Sowell

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

American Economist

Citium Zeno

Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.

Greek Philosopher

Kirstjen Nielsen

I do absolutely believe that the climate is changing. I'm not prepared to determine causation.

American Public Servant

Tim Ferriss

I'm very familiar with how people can confuse correlation with causation.

Alexander Nix

The big mystery of Big Data is causation versus correlation.

British Businessman

Causation implies an active role in the outcome, not just a passive connection.

Active Process

Causation might be indirect, meaning it's part of a chain of causes, not the only one.

Not Always Direct

Causation often requires proof, and isn't assumed just because two events are related.

Evidence-Based

Causation means one event actually causes the other, not just that they occur together.

Beyond Correlation

In research, establishing causation requires strict conditions and often, repeated testing.

Causation in Studies

In law, causation can determine liability; it's central in cases like negligence or personal injury.

Legal Implications

Legal causation requires showing a direct link from the defendant's action to the harm caused.

Proving Responsibility

In complex cases, there may be more than one causation leading to the legal outcome.

Multiple Causes

 for while some technologies develop steadily, according to the laws of cumulative causation, many emerge as precipitous breakthroughs, almost overnight defying any timeline that could be drawn out in advance. Quantum computing is a candidate for just such a breakthrough, having already reached a number of critical milestones

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 is associated with chronic anger. But there's a couple of others. Misattributing causation. Angry people tend to put blame where it doesn't belong. Not just on people, but actually inanimate objects as well. And if you think that sound ridiculous, think about the last time you lost your car keys and you said,

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 and in gold, we see a subset of companies with best practice in climate change strategy and risk management. Now over almost eight years, they've outperformed by about two thirds. So yes, this is correlation. It's not causation. But it does illustrate that environmental leadership

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 we found that we could discover the causation of the positive states the relationship between left hemispheric activity and right hemispheric activity as a cause of happiness I've spent my life working on extremely miserable people and I've asked the question how

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 We found that we could discover the causation of the positive states, the relationship between left hemispheric activity and right hemispheric activity, as a cause of happiness. I've spent my life working on extremely miserable people, and I've asked the

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 would take seriously the fact that so much of our verbiage about abstract events is based on a concrete metaphor and see human intelligence itself as consisting of a repertoire of concepts -- such as objects, space, time, causation and intention --

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 meaning, are companies really more innovative because they have a more diverse leadership, or the other way around? Which way is it? Now, we do not know how much is correlation versus causation, but what we do know is that clearly,

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 I learned that the Civil War was a nationalizing conflict, I learned some physics, I learned that correlation shouldn't be confused with causation -- all of these things, by the way, enriched my life on a literally daily basis.

Paper towns and why...

 stress management was more strongly correlated with reversal of coronary disease than exercise was. No doubt, this and similar studies are small, and, of course, correlation does not prove causation.

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 to rule out those rival theories, and to distinguish correlation from causation. And academic journals involve peer review, where a paper is rigorously scrutinized by the world's leading minds.