LETTER: Implication that voting caused Covid cases is a ‘logical fallacy’

LETTER: Implication that voting caused Covid cases is a ‘logical fallacy’

May 06, 2020

To Ozaukee Press:

 This is a response to the letter to the Editor written by Donald Harvey, M.D., and published in your April 30 issue.

I would remind the good doctor that correlation does not imply causation. In statistics, this phrase refers to the inability to legitimately deduce a cause-and-effect relationship between two variables solely on the basis of an observed association or correlation between them.

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