{"id":326,"date":"2012-03-21T10:45:46","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T14:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=326"},"modified":"2021-01-27T06:45:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T13:45:50","slug":"confused-about-causation-and-correlation-from-seth-godins-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/confused-about-causation-and-correlation-from-seth-godins-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Confused about causation and correlation (from Seth Godin&#8217;s blog)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you noticed that in most cities, every time there are lots of umbrellas, it&#8217;s raining?<\/p>\n<p>From this analysis, the obvious way to make it rain is to be sure that everyone has an umbrella, preferably a black one, since that seems to be the kind that&#8217;s most visible during big storms.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you noticed that in most cities, every time there are lots of umbrellas, it&rsquo;s raining? From this analysis, the obvious way to make it rain is to be sure that everyone has an umbrella, preferably a black one, since that seems to be the kind that&rsquo;s most visible during big storms. http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[200,18,23,24],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jay-arthur-blog","tag-causation","tag-cause-effect","tag-correlation","tag-correlation-causation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4036,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/4036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}