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Comment by Alex Esterkin on November 7, 2014 at 9:58pm

"Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive." - George Bernard Shaw on confusing correlation with causation.

Comment by Alex Esterkin on August 13, 2013 at 12:32pm

Regrettably, those who design our health care reform have failed to understand the difference between correlation and causation.  Increasingly, life extension statistical data is used in decision-making for seniors whether to grant them access to treatments.  Due to overall health decline and growing incidence of other health issues, cure-focused treatment life expectancy benefits decrease with age.  This purely correlation based statistics is misconstrued as evidence of diminishing with age causation, and access to treatments is denied.  Truly depressing.... 

Comment by K.Kalyanaraman on December 29, 2011 at 8:04am

Correlation is one of the more misused methods in data analysis. In all the above cases correlation has no meaning