I usually focus on something a subset of the population gets wrong, so the rest of us can feel smart, but this week, I’m ...

The Trump Administration is warning against Tylenol, citing unsupported claims that use during pregnancy may cause autism, as ...

Correctly distinguishing between correlation and causation is critical because it influences how treatments for illnesses are devised and tested. Also, in the context of the law, it ensures that as ...

We’ve all been told that correlation does not imply causation. Yet many business leaders, elected officials, and media outlets still make causal claims based on misleading correlations. These claims ...

Today’s post is the third, and final, one in a series providing guidance to teachers on how to interpret education research. Cara Jackson currently serves as the president of the Association for ...

Simon's method for making causal inferences from patterns of intercorrelations is applied to a five variable sociological problem. The technique is used in exploratory fashion to develop successive ...