Tired of these studies overstating the results by confusing #correlation and #causation. A recent #PNAS paper (co-authored by D. Kahneman!) starts with the question "can money buy happiness?"... and does no offer any evidence of a #causal relationship https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/08/01/studying-average-associations-between-income-and-survey-responses-on-happiness-be-careful-about-deterministic-and-causal-interpretations-that-are-not-supported-by-these-data/ #stats #statistics #correlationisnotcausation
@leovarnet To be fair, a study that finds no evidence of association is a pretty good clue about absence of causation ...
@slrellison Well... strictly speaking it isn't. It could be that the relationship is causal but nonlinear (Anscombe's quartet) or that it is masked by another factor...
@leovarnet ‘association’ is a bit more flexible than ‘correlation’ …