Because It’s Friday: Correlation

7 Comments

• Tony Wang — March 6, 2009 at 12:20 pm

  How do you know gravity is the force that causes things to fall? Is it correlation, causation, or our ability to reason?

  Philosophy is a wonderful thing. :)
• Pete Indelicato — March 6, 2009 at 12:21 pm

  Hilarious. Thanks!
• Ryan Prociuk — March 6, 2009 at 12:46 pm

  cum hoc ergo propter hoc Says it all
• Lis — March 6, 2009 at 2:28 pm

  It loses something without the hover text though:

  “Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there'”

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• Al Gore — March 10, 2009 at 10:19 am

  What do you mean? Correlation doesn’t imply causation…? (Ooops)

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