The Lurking Variable: Karl Pearson’s 1899 Discovery That a Hidden Third Cause Can Manufacture Any Pattern, Fisher’s Randomised Remedy, and Why the Long-Term Equity Investor Must Ask What Moves Both

Causal triangle diagram: a gold third-cause node Z sends arrows to X and Y, while the dashed correlation between X and Y is crossed out

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