When Stats Got Smoky: Fisher’s Classic Causation Trick

Описание: Ever wonder who first warned us that correlation isn’t causation? In the 1950s the brilliant statistician R A Fisher, the father of modern statistics, used that exact line to challenge early studies linking cigarette smoking to cancer. He argued that just because two things rise together doesn’t mean one causes the other, casting doubt on the emerging health alarm. Fisher’s clever rebuttal became one of the earliest, most notorious uses of the “correlation does not imply causation” argument. So next time you see a headline remember Fisher’s warning, numbers alone don’t tell the whole story.
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