# Quote — Ben Aaronovitch, False Value

> “The timing might not be significant,” I said. “Just because two things happen at the same time doesn’t mean they’re related.”
>
> Abigail gave me a withering look. But everyone assumes causation when they should be thinking coincidence, and correlation when they should be asking whether Twitter is really a reliable source of information.

- Author: [Ben Aaronovitch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch.md)
- Book: [False Value](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/false-value.md)
- Page: 144
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ben_Aaronovitch#False_Value_(2020)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/false-value/the-timing-might

## More from this book

> Miss Karmargi who’d been my Religious Education teacher at school. An avowed atheist who’d once said that she respected all religions equally—“which is more than can be said for most religions,” she’d added.

p. 190 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/false-value/miss-karmargi-whod.md)

> After that I was up and ready for action. It might have been a Saturday, but below the rank of chief inspector weekends are an entirely notional concept.

p. 238 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/false-value/after-that-i-was.md)

> There were a couple of mentions of drones, but the assumption was that they were operated by the police, the gangs, space lizards or all three at once. The media were continuing their comforting lack of interest in things that didn’t fit their various agendas.

p. 139 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/false-value/there-were-a-couple.md)