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The Popperian Podcast #25 – Donald Gillies – ‘The Philosophy of Medical Discovery’
The Popperian Podcast
The Problem With Correlations in Medical Medicine
You can get correlations. Some of them are causal in character and others aren't. And so it is a central problem in medical medicine particularly statistical medicine, distinguishing connections which are correlations and causal from other that which are not. What I would say about it is that you certainly need to have something more than just a correlation in order to establish causality. But the question of what more you need is a bit sort of not entirely clear.
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