One of the most insane implicit epistemological rules held in deep esteem by the progressive world is this one.https://twitter.com/Caroline30/status/1385276165116637186 …
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But confounding via many common causes (multiple unblocked paths in a big causal graph) is by far the most common case, as
@gwern explains:https://www.gwern.net/Causality#shouldnt-it-be-easy … -
There are multiple levels here. In academic social science the excerpt is very good summary. In *informal* usage "correlation does not equal causation" is a word-spell used to dismiss uncomfortable implications where the causation is perfectly clear but politically "wrong"pic.twitter.com/ZepQEG86yZ
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