Here’s the cure to being duped again. It’s a site called Spurious Correlations by Tyler Vigen–or more accurately, Tyler Vigen’s software. He created code to spot correlations in public data sets and ...

How much alcohol is “too much,” in terms of cancer risk? Identifying causes helps us make decisions — both as individuals and ...

Despite the chant that correlation is not causation, some researchers believe the design of scatter plots nudges us to the wrong conclusions. Can a change in their design lessen that risk? Analyzing ...

Here for spreading far and wide is a graphical reminder of the important distinction between correlation and causation. Redditor Jasonp55 writes that he was practicing Graph Pad when he produced the ...

Subscribe for analysis that goes beyond the noise. Via Cosma in comments at the other place I hang out, this is a very nice teaching tool for the sole and single purpose of getting this point across ...

Paul Kaplan: Quoting Benjamin Disraeli, Mark Twain famously quipped, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." In the field of investments, in which we rely heavily on ...

The most powerful weapon that debaters wield against the unwary is causation: marijuana use leads to heroin addiction, pornography to rape, video games to mass murder, high consumption of margarine to ...

Correctly distinguishing between correlation and causation is critical because it influences how treatments for illnesses are devised and tested. Also, in the context of the law, it ensures that as ...

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