One of the standard topics in an undergraduate statistics course is the principle that two things that are highly correlated do not necessarily have a cause-and-effect relationship. Here is a hilarious example of this fallacy.
And, in case you’re wondering, here’s the rest of the story:
Claire Rothe
/ November 27, 2015One of my favorites that you talked about!! Thank you for the “correlation” to this topic! I just started scatter plots! Can’t wait to show this to my algebra 1 class!!