TheOtherDave comments on The American System and Misleading Labels - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 29 December 2012 08:13:10PM 1 point [-]

I agree that it's difficult to rule out the presence of common causal factors, especially in complex systems where there really are a lot of causal factors.

To my mind, that's a good reason not to assume simple causality from correlation between two factors in a complex system.