Source: An Introduction to English Poetry (2002), Ch. 5: The Iambic Pentameter (p. 28)
“Correlation and causation are two quite different words, and the innumerate are more prone to mistake them than most.”
Source: Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences (1988), Chapter 5, “Statistics, Trade-Offs, and Society” (p. 159)
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