[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/sci/ - Science & Math

View post   
File: 6 KB, 213x236, images.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
5854655 No.5854655 [Reply] [Original]

I get that correlation =/= causation, but what's the correlation between correlation and causation?

>> No.5854663

It's causative not correlative.

>> No.5854670
File: 275 KB, 640x512, 1368735856880.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
5854670

>>5854655
implicative

Hanging on... dare I say it.. strings

>> No.5854678

If i throw violently a rock to the ground you will listen a noise and see an hole. Did the noise cause that hole? No. Did the hole cause that noise? No. But there are correlated. They're the same event.

>> No.5854688

>>5854655
A correlation is a positive or negative link between multiple events. Either. There is no "correlation" between correlation and causation. People always use that word wrong.

>> No.5854701

Thank you for the answers, /sci/.

I meant to ask how often correlated events have causality between them? How would one even calculate something like that? Does this question not blow your mind?!

>> No.5854717
File: 18 KB, 987x648, 12321.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
5854717

>>5854701

>> No.5854728

>>5854655
We need a fucking philosophy board...

>> No.5855007

>>5854728
Why did you sage my thread motherfucker

>> No.5855034

correlation - linear relationship
dependence - any relationship, possibly nonlinear
causation - such relationship that knowing one variable allows you to predict the other more accurately than without knowing it

>> No.5855052

>>5855034
>correlation - linear relationship
... unless the relation (not *ship*) is nonlinear.

>> No.5855054

>>5854701
>I meant to ask how often correlated events have causality between them?
Two systematically correlated events are always causally connected in some way. That doesn't mean the connection is at all direct, much less onedirectional.

>Does this question not blow your mind?!
Not for anyone who actually understands the words you use, no.

>> No.5855116

>>5854728
agreed

>> No.5855196

>>5855054
You may have taught me something today, but you didn't need to be a douche!

Anyway, so you're saying that correlated all events in our universe throughout spacetime are causally connected in some way?? Do you have anything to back up your claim? Something a non-physicist plebe like me can comprehend?

>> No.5855210

>>5855052
I understand you're using precise terms here, but what's the difference between a 'relation' and a 'relationship'?