Correlation is not causation

[H. R. Riley]

The Immortal David Hume got it right. Causation is correlation.


On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 4:15 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Same series as the Comedy; An introduction book I recently read and
> alluded to here.
>
> yes, Imma gonna get me one too....
>
>   *From:* Peter Petto <ppetto at ppetto.com>
> *To:* pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> *Sent:* Friday, November 29, 2013 9:00 PM
> *Subject:* Re: Correlation is not causation
>
> Correlation is not causation…but as they say, it’s a hell of a clue.
>
> (Causation isn’t happening when correlation is absent.)
>
> Thanks for pointing us to this book. I look forward to reading it.
>
>   Peter++
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Nov 27, 2013, at 11:00 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > http://blog.oup.com/2013/11/correlation-is-not-causation/
> >
> >
> http://global.oup.com/academic/product/causation-a-very-short-introduction-9780199684434;jsessionid=7729A325E6079FEA455388F363DA492C?cc=us&lang=en&
> > -
> > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
>
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20131226/d6f4c494/attachment.html>