I’m choosing to ignore that possibility to clarify the exposition of what I think is going on. Problems like that are what I’m referring to when I preface:
And we can’t explain all of this away as the result of illusory correlations being throw up by the standard statistical problems with findings such as small n/sampling error, selection bias, publication bias, etc.
Even if we had enormous clean datasets showing correlations to whatever level of statistical-significance you please, you still can’t spin the straw of correlation into the gold of causation, and the question remains why.
I’m choosing to ignore that possibility to clarify the exposition of what I think is going on. Problems like that are what I’m referring to when I preface:
Even if we had enormous clean datasets showing correlations to whatever level of statistical-significance you please, you still can’t spin the straw of correlation into the gold of causation, and the question remains why.