Andrew Morse wrote:
>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.
It certainly wasn't Hume, who's argument would be 'Causation is nothing but
correlation'
William Provine's biography of Sewall Wright includes a discussion with Wright
about his introduction of path analysis (in 1918 I think) in a paper entitled
'Correlation & Causation' A Humean critic said the title was redundant.
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