WellQuestly

A deeper look at why the gap between research and headlines keeps costing us. Almost everyone who's ever been in a science-adjacent conversation has heard it: "correlation doesn't imply causation." It gets dropped like a trump card. Someone cites a study, someone else says the phrase, everyone nods, and the conversation moves on. But here's the thing; knowing the phrase and actually understanding what it means in practice are completely different things. And the ways this mis