IlyaShpitser comments on How to avoid dying in a car crash - Less Wrong

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Comment author: IlyaShpitser 19 March 2012 04:58:55PM *  1 point [-]

"There are almost no correlation studies worth doing. Correlation studies correlate with being worthless really well."

You can identify causes from observational studies with some assumptions. Some of these assumptions may be plausible sometimes. Have you ever looked at a paper doing a causal analysis of observational data?