I bring up these examples to prove the point that correlation doesn’t necessarily imply causation. I have to mention this because the confusion comes into play when there is causation. If there is causation, there will be a correlation. Let’s look at another trivial example that illustrates ...
Correlation: An association between two pieces of data. Causation: The act of causing something; one event directly contributes to the existence of another. Randomized Control Trial (RCT): an experimental method used to determine cause-and-effect relationships, where results from a control condition...
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Thanks for this excellent post. I have a question concerning multicollinearity, which you say is a major concern in causal analysis. Specifically, you note that since the goal is accurate coefficient estimates, high correlation between two variables can be devastating because low precision on the co...
Predictability Another factor that will influence the strength of conditioning is the correlation between the treats you're using and the scary person. If the person sometimes occurs without the treat or that treat sometimes is given without a stranger present, the correlation will be lower and ...
Ladyman et al. (2007, p. 160) claim that causation is problematic in the microscopic domain where, for example, ‘the singlet state in the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (Bohm-EPR) experiment fails to screen off the correlations between the results in the two wings of the apparatus, and thus fa...
However, if one takes up a piece of wood and hit one's head, one would realize that, while the application of the concept of cause to the wood may be a human interpretation, the wood does have real power to bring about the event of pain, and the correlation is real. Weaver (2019,...