(September 21, 2013 at 4:36 pm)Koolay Wrote:(September 21, 2013 at 4:25 pm)pocaracas Wrote: For the millionth time... Correlation does not imply causation!
Well, yeah, but that does not really cut the mustard when trillions of dollars have been put into programs which sole purpose was to do the exact opposite of what has happened.
What if I came up with a new advertising campaign to increase sales for a company, and after vast amounts of money, and decades of time put into the campaign, sales not only did not increase, but sales decreased. Would I then be in my right to say "Correlation does not equal causation"?
You might be. Perhaps your product quality is known to be shoddy. Perhaps it doesn't meet a market need. Perhaps you targeted the wrong demographic. Perhaps you're just incompetent.
Perhaps you failed to control for all of the relevant variables.
