Cat Hicks on Nostr: I regret to say it but as the one time author of the top search result for "what is a ...
I regret to say it but as the one time author of the top search result for "what is a correlation" (random win I never get to put on a resume lol), I feel some grounds to say WAY too many people internalized the single phrase "correlation is not causation" and then never listened to a single other thing about research design or causal evidence and at this point I feel it's done as much data literacy harm as the original confusion.
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