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Manfred comments on Taking "correlation does not imply causation" back from the internet - Less Wrong Discussion

41 Post author: sixes_and_sevens 03 October 2012 12:18PM

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Comment author: Manfred 03 October 2012 08:52:07PM *  1 point [-]

Aha, yes - which I think I in turn was linked to by Ben Goldacre. But the reason I was quickly able to enumerate this as a separate kind of correlation is because the causal graph is different, which would be Judea Pearl.

Comment author: Antisuji 04 October 2012 12:23:19AM 0 points [-]

Yup. I'm reading the link from this post and just got to the discussion of Berkson's paradox, which seems to be the same effect.