Tags:: #🌱 Links:: [[Probabilistic thinking]] [[Probability]] # Correlation doesn't mean causation Correlation doesn't mean causation. Causation means that the probability of one thing is directly affected by another. The only way to prove one variable causually affects another is through an [[Experimental Study Design|experimental study]]. Here are some things that occur as a result of not realizing this: - [[Collider fallacy]] - [[Hindsight bias]] - [[Survivorship bias]] - [[Regression fallacy]] - [[Conjunction fallacy]] - [[The illusion of meritocracy]]