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Why Correlational Data Stays Correlational
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Correlational data cannot be converted into causal data by any amount of additional reasoning about the same data.
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Adding statistical controls narrows the alternatives and never produces the manipulation an experiment performs.
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This is the most common error in reported psychology, and it is committed by researchers as often as by headlines.
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