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If you look hard enough, you will always find correlation between stuff.

Never forget that's correlation doesn't imply causality!




Correlation does imply causality, but:

    1) it doesn't (alone) tell you what sort
    2) it takes quite a number of examples to be very certain of anything
    3) you have to be weighting counter-examples correctly, too
    4) you shouldn't forget your priors




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