On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 02:40:30PM -0800, Matthew Hardeman via dev-security-policy wrote: > On Friday, December 15, 2017 at 3:51:48 PM UTC-6, Ryan Sleevi wrote: > > Yes, we can say correlated variables are correlated. > > No, we cannot imply or infer from correlated variables that there is a > > causal relationship. > > There exists a not insignificant school of actuarial thought that there > are circumstances where mere correlation is sufficient to build > statistical risk models.
Good to know. Is the circumstance under discussion one of those? - Matt _______________________________________________ dev-security-policy mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security-policy
