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Re:Popularity of technology on Stack Overflow and Hacker New... by efficax on Sunday June 10, 2018 @10:28AM (#17278261)
Modern statistical theory has adopted techniques of causal inference from statisical data. There are some questions about the theoretical foundations but the stats folk by and large have run with it and feel perfectly comfortable talking about causality in certain situations.

http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/if-correlation-doesnt-impl...

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Re:Popularity of technology on Stack Overflow and Hacker New... by hexane360 on Sunday June 10, 2018 @06:35PM (#17280551)
Yes, but all of them require a complete model of all possible influences and hidden factors. It's still only as good as the model, which in the OP is just "HN and SO".
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