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correlation to cause
the sufficiency problem of going from correlation to cause

description

Reasoning from Correlation to Cause occurs when a correlation is observed, and a causal relationship assumed.

examples

"The stork population has gone up, as has the human population. Storks must create human babies."


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|created 2002.03.24 |um 2002.07.23 |r 2009.09.12@07:25 | GTK
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