Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by asdfasgasdgasdg 2041 days ago
https://www.gwern.net/Causality

Correlation usually does not indicate causation. I.e. more than 50% of the time, correlative relationships in studies do not indicate causal ones. Taking that as a prior, and lacking any evidence to the contrary, it is indeed correct to say "it is most likely that ...".

1 comments

... fair point! I stand corrected!