Posts about: causation

If ‘correlation doesn’t imply causation’, how do scientists figure out why things happen?

If ‘correlation doesn’t imply causation’, how do scientists figure out why things happen?

Most of us have heard the phrase “correlation does not equal causation”. But understanding how scientists move beyond identifying correlations to establish causation remains a mystery to many. Finding out what causes a particular outcome is often the primary goal of scientific research, especially in studies relating to our health. We want to know if […]…