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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2805461, member: 71723&quot;]I agree the correlation is the first step, and a necessary one, but I see them again becoming so utterly fascinating to the data industry, that we have mistakenly started to treat them as a tangible PRODUCT, and that is sheer madness.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m sorry, Jeff, if you&#039;re in that biz, no offense intended, but the &quot;big data&quot; era and industry just strike me as just about as evil, on the potential side, as anything else going right now.</p><p><br /></p><p>Remember, A has a high correlation with B, does not mean A causes B. B might cause A, and A and B might both have cause C. And that&#039;s ONLY the simplest case. It gets better still. Yes, my &quot;business&quot;, politics, especially the kind practiced by court-related departments, is perhaps the BIGGEST abuser of correlations. The &quot;risk assessment&quot; tools they use are just thinly veiled cultural &quot;genocide&quot; tools. They are self-accelerating positive feedback loops that create the very thing they are intending to assess the likelihood of.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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