{"id":9068,"date":"2017-09-28T17:01:53","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T16:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=9068"},"modified":"2017-09-28T17:01:53","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T16:01:53","slug":"correlation-not-causation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2017\/09\/correlation-not-causation\/","title":{"rendered":"Correlation not causation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am following up some references Rudi Balling showed in his talk yesterday. Sure, correlation is not causation,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9069\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9069\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Bildschirmfoto-2017-09-28-um-12.26.18.jpg\" data-rel=\"key-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9069 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Bildschirmfoto-2017-09-28-um-12.26.18-620x501.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Bildschirmfoto-2017-09-28-um-12.26.18-620x501.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Bildschirmfoto-2017-09-28-um-12.26.18-768x621.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Bildschirmfoto-2017-09-28-um-12.26.18-618x500.jpg 618w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Bildschirmfoto-2017-09-28-um-12.26.18.jpg 1475w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9069\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An excerpt of the famous Wright paper 1921<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>but I fear that with all that systems biology we already ended in the scientific nirwana than generating any useful hypothesis.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 25.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am following up some references Rudi Balling showed in his talk yesterday. Sure, correlation is not causation, but I fear that with all that systems biology we already ended in the scientific nirwana than generating any useful hypothesis. &nbsp; CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 25.04.2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","category-computer-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9068"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9074,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9068\/revisions\/9074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}