At this point, all we need to emphasize is that the causal mode comes much more naturally to us. Even explanations that should properly be treated as statistical are easily turned into causal narratives. Consider assertions such as “they failed because they lacked experience” or “they succeeded because they had a brilliant leader.” It would be easy for you to think of counterexamples, in which inexperienced teams succeeded and brilliant leaders failed. The correlations of experience and brilliance with success are at best moderate and probably low. Yet a causal attribution is readily made.
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