Humorous critique addresses how correlation often misleads scientists about causation, impacting modern science.
William M. Briggs has a humorous take on Aubrey Clayton’s Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science, concluding that the fundamental problem in the use of statistics are the scientists who “forget” that correlation does not equal causation.
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