Correlation Does Not Imply Causation

January 14th, 2009 | Tags:

**Question: Do you agree, children with serious behavior problems in school end up as failures later in life?**

The study mentioned in the article, doesn’t seem to do a good job of linking cause and effect. The behavior problems were not the cause of the failure later in life, they were an effect of other forces that later led to a lesser level of success.

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