News headlines often compress complex science into a simple storyline: If two things are happening at the same time, one must ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Andy Smith is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP®), licensed realtor and educator with over ...

Businesses that rely on correlation will be misled with increasing confidence. Businesses that master causation will navigate complexity with increasing clarity.

"[The plaintiff's] theory of causation was, if he'd have been at the hospital, he wouldn't have had the chance to be hit by a car. That's factually true, but it's a useful illustration of the ...

A comment posted by a reader on a recent post reprimanded me for suggesting that marijuana caused relationships to go bad. In this instance the reader was mistaken, as I had specifically used the word ...