[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Morse) wrote in message
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> Who was the first to say "Correlation does not imply causation" in so many
> words? I know that the idea dates back to David Hume, but Hume did his
> work about a century before the term "correlation" acquired its modern
> statitical meaning. I've seen many sources that crdit Karl Pearson with
> banishing the idea of causation from modern statistical theory, but none
> that attribute the quote directly to him. Sewall Wright? Francis Galton?
> Ronald Fisher? Any other candidates?
You also see "correlation is not causation". Google searches on
either didn't turn up who might have said it first.
Glen
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