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?
-- Andrew
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