Correlation, of course, is not causation. But even skeptical market strategists acknowledge that when a team from Philadelphia wins the Super ...

Why do so many Americans believe that immigration increases crime and that smartphones are to blame for the teen mental health crisis? It may be the false cause fallacy.

There are many messages from science that bear repeating. One of them is that correlation does not mean causation. When headlines include a cause-effect conclusion based on correlational evidence ...

In other words, it is wise to adjust either for differences in bedroom counts or differences in GLA, but not to account for both. That would be tantamount to adjusting twice for but one difference. A ...

So the rest of the study’s findings were based on correlation, not causation, using self-reported dietary data. They were also “influenced by the extensive duration of the follow-up”, the author said, ...

Sean Ross is a strategic adviser at 1031x.com, Investopedia contributor, and the founder and manager of Free Lances Ltd. Thomas J Catalano is a CFP and Registered Investment Adviser with the state ...

However, the study was observational and cannot prove causation, noted Vanessa King ... A mom's health during pregnancy is not likely to influence her child's risk of autism, a new study argues.

My response was to corral a different quote from the Austrian philosopher: To my mind, Bitcoin is “not a something, but not a nothing either.”1 ...

This relationship may or may not represent causation between the two variables, but it does describe an observable pattern. A negative correlation can be contrasted with a positive correlation ...