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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