Dec 11, 2025
Correlation, Causation, and the Beautiful Lies We Tell Ourselves
We humans adore patterns.We breathe them, chase them, worship them. A star blinks and we invent a myth.Our heart breaks once and we swear it’s fate.Two numbers rise together and suddenly we have a theory of everything. This is where it beginsthe most seductive misunderstanding in science and in life:Correlation feels like causation.And our brains, emotional and impatient, rarely stop to ask the…
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