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Comment author: apophenia 03 October 2013 09:11:12AM *  17 points [-]

Judea Pearl, Causality:

If two things are correlated, there is causation. Either A causes B, B causes A, they have common cause, or they have a common effect you're conditioning on.

Edit: If two variables are correlated, there is causation. Either A causes B, B causes A, they have common cause, or they have a common effect you're conditioning on.

Comment author: wedrifid 03 October 2013 10:46:05AM 3 points [-]

If two things are correlated, there is causation. Either A causes B, B causes A, they have common cause, or they have a common effect you're conditioning on.

That's 28 words. Isn't it a bit long? (Still upvoted because the first sentence stands on its own with just 8 words.)

Comment author: [deleted] 03 October 2013 01:27:33PM 1 point [-]

•It doesn't have to be 15 words long, it's just the best "15" words.