[matthewmacleod]

“Correlation does not imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there.’” (Thanks to XKCD)

It’s true that correlation does not imply causation. But it’s a stupid middlebrow dismissal to throw out there.

[andrewprock]

On the contrary, you usually see armchair philosophers resting quite heavily on the assumption that correlation does indeed imply causation.