Cause and Effect
Cause and Effect.....
One thing of certainty is change; including many major milestones within the development of scientific theories; for example what once held a strong foundation in 1916 may not have done so in 1931. Whoever says scientists don't know what they are talking about is foolish; scientific research offers up to people possible explanations and reasonable predictions, but does scientific theory ever become fact? If proof exists beyond a shadow of a doubt, scientists would no longer continue to research and develop their knowledge and understanding around certain subject areas; cosmologists question the shape of the universe now, once people questioned the shape of the Earth. Knowledge exists in a constant state of flux, and great scientists driven by curiosity offer up new possibilities to yesterday's questions. Observed correlation might indicate a casual relationship between two variables, and may enable us to make a strong argument about the cause and effect relationship between those variables, but 'correlation does not imply causation', no p-value in the world proves something, since infinitively too many possibilities of unthought things exist.
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