A recent blog post on Moz by Cyrus Shepard caused quite a stir in the SEO community. This stir was rooted in part over lack of understanding of the difference between correlation and causation, and in ...

In Friday’s Financial Times, economist and author Tim Harford offers a much-needed, unusually considered response to big data hype, using the reported failure of Google Flu Trends to predict a recent ...

A comment posted by a reader on a recent post reprimanded me for suggesting that marijuana caused relationships to go bad. In this instance the reader was mistaken, as I had specifically used the word ...

Paul Kaplan: Quoting Benjamin Disraeli, Mark Twain famously quipped, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." In the field of investments, in which we rely heavily on ...

Claims from the Trump White House about links between use of the painkiller acetaminophen—often sold under the brand name ...

In the quantum world, correlation can imply causation. A new experiment using particles of light shows that identifying a simple association between two variables is sufficient to determine whether ...

One hundred fifty world leaders, with President Barack Obama as the prime mover, and hundreds of their aides and hangers-on, gathered in Paris for an event called the "2014 United Nations Climate ...

Conventional wisdom dictates that a lawyer being sued for legal malpractice in New York will rarely win a motion to dismiss based on lack of causation. Nevertheless, the case law suggests that a ...