Categories Civil Society Economics Interviews Policy & Politics False Positives and Spurious Correlations: An Interview with Professor Mark White Post author By The SAIS Review Post date April 18, 2014 What’s wrong with big data? Is its use causing more mistakes? Professor Mark White discusses the negative implications of the newest trend in research with SAIS Review Assistant Editor Kyle Johnson. Tags big data, causation, correlation, interview, kyle johnson, large hadron collider, mark white, nate silver, SAIS Review, statistics, the signal and the noise