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gezero@lemmy.bowyerhub.uk to Ask@piefed.social · 3 hours ago

Do you know of an effective way how to explain to a person that correlation doesn't imply causation?

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Do you know of an effective way how to explain to a person that correlation doesn't imply causation?

gezero@lemmy.bowyerhub.uk to Ask@piefed.social · 3 hours ago
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    Monthly deaths from drowning correlate to ice cream sales.

    Ice cream doesn’t cause drowning, but both numbers go up at the same time of year (summer)

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    Do things that happen to stupid people keep happening to you?

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    https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

    Have fun! :)

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      We must increase the pirate population dramatically!

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    100% of people who drink water will die?

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    Every single person who confuses correlation with causation ends up dying.

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      We don’t know that for sure. There several bililon people who have not died yet.

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        Sounds like none of them have confused the two then… yet!

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