There's an old AP Statistics joke meant to illustrate the fallacy of conflating correlation and causation that goes something like this: "Every person who has died in a car crash drank water within the week of the fatal accident." Obviously, despite the nigh 100 percent correlation of people who drink...
There’s an old AP Statistics joke meant to illustrate the fallacy of conflating correlation and causation that goes something like this: “Every person who has died in a car crash drank water within the week of the fatal accident.” Obviously, despite the nigh 100 percent correlation of people who drink…
