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Was I supposed to get this entire essay out of your original comment of ‘Correlation is not causation.’?
You were supposed to get it in response to a much, much larger study which I bothered to actually read.
Which study is that?
I must have missed it.
Maybe there's a miscommunication here, and my answer just now was a bit snarky so I apologize for that. I expected "Correlation does not imply causation" to be a reminder of common knowledge, an assumption that was apparently unfair for several people in the thread. You linked to a study, "Investigating the Link Between Gun Possession and Gun Assault." I responded to that study with the- well, I suppose it was an essay. I used my response to justify the position that statistical correlation does not imply causal relationship, which I quoted the study as saying they couldn't determine "reverse causality-" they couldn't determine whether carrying a gun makes people get shot more, or whether people who are more likely to get shot are also more likely to carry a gun.
Does that answer your question?
Makes sense.
I assumed when you referred to a much larger study that you actually bothered to read you were referring to an actual study.