Comment on Correlation == Causation?

zlatiah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Serious: a Google data scientist has legitimately written a book on this topic lol. Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (see his Wikipedia page)

The book didn’t age super well because they got the causation direction wrong; in terms of real-world implementation Google Trends turned out to be pretty bad at actually predicting flu

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