We still reason so much from the implicit premise that correlations are meaningful. It’s so intuitive, but wrong. The thing that finally got me to wrap my mind around it was this:
https://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
We still reason so much from the implicit premise that correlations are meaningful. It’s so intuitive, but wrong. The thing that finally got me to wrap my mind around it was this:
https://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations