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• Correlation is not causation (???)
• No causation without manipulation. (Holland)
• All models are wrong, some are useful. (Box)
• Statistics is the science of uncertainty. (arguably Tukey)
• Statistics is the science of learning from experience, especially experience that arrives a little bit at a time. (Efron)
• Empirically observed covariation is a necessary but not sufficient condition for causality. (Tufte)
• Correlation is not causation but it sure is a hint. (Tufte)
• In a causal model, correlation implies causation (somewhere). (Paul F Christiano)
• Reality is the ultimate judge of any theory (???)
• The Folk Theorem of Statistical Computing: When you have computational problems, often there’s a problem with your model. (Gelman)