The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning. (Stephen Jay Gould)

The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning.

Stephen Jay Gould

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