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A.Stringer"Reducing the issue to isolated <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/variables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#variables</a>, where the solution might appear to be to introduce a new <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/policy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#policy</a> (like banning <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/smartphones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#smartphones</a>) follows a technocratic logic that could turn <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/goodhealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#goodhealth</a> into a matter for experts.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Youngpeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Youngpeople</a> were becoming more anxious long before <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#socialmedia</a> – here’s the evidence <a href="https://theconversation.com/young-people-were-becoming-more-anxious-long-before-social-media-heres-the-evidence-243738#Echobox=1736884297" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/young-people-were-becoming-more-anxious-long-before-social-media-heres-the-evidence-243738#Echobox=1736884297</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/interpretingdata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#interpretingdata</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/correlationisnotcausation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#correlationisnotcausation</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/mentalhealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mentalhealth</a>

changosueCorrelation does not imply causation. Just because two things happen together doesn’t mean one causes the other. For example, the number of Nicolas Cage movies and drowning deaths in pools showed a correlation between 1999 and 2009. Although this may seem curious, it doesn’t mean one caused the other. Always question if there is a causal relationship or if it’s just a coincidence. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CorrelationIsNotCausation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CorrelationIsNotCausation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FunFact" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FunFact</a>

Sjaak K. 🇳🇱🇪🇺Neeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!Niet meegedaan aan de Dam-tot-Damloop!!! En nu heeft er een Ethiopiër gewonnen!<a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/correlationisnotcausation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#correlationisnotcausation</a>

Potung Thul<a href="https://thecanadian.social/@MostlyHarmless" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@MostlyHarmless</a>Oh, this one is way too precious not to have <a href="https://toot.io/tags/AltText" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AltText</a>! Let me <a href="https://toot.io/tags/Alt4You" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Alt4You</a>.Single panel comic: Teacher points to main point of lesson written on blackboard: "Every single person who confuses correlation and causation ends up dying. "<a href="https://toot.io/tags/CorrelationIsNotCausation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CorrelationIsNotCausation</a>

Your Autistic Life FR/EN/ES"This one thing may derail your shot at healthy aging, scientists say"Even the LA Times engages in clickbaity headlines.The scientist only found a correlation, not causation. The article even states:"The study didn’t show that excess TV time **caused** any of the nurses to miss out on healthy aging, only that there was a significant inverse **correlation** between the two. Still, there’s good reason to suspect that their favorite sedentary behavior bore at least some of the responsibility."(Emphasis added.)The last sentence is just a feeble attempt at justifying their headline.Shame on the LA Times (<a href="https://mastodon.social/@latimes" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@latimes</a>). Is it any mystery that every time a newspaper says "trust us!," I go 🙄.<a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/LATimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LATimes</a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/CorrelationIsNotCausation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CorrelationIsNotCausation</a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/correlation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#correlation</a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/causation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#causation</a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/clickbait" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#clickbait</a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/newspapers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#newspapers</a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#journalism</a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/ShittyJournalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ShittyJournalism</a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/trust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trust</a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/distrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#distrust</a> <a href="https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2024-06-14/this-one-thing-may-derail-your-shot-at-healthy-aging-scientists-say" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2024-06-14/this-one-thing-may-derail-your-shot-at-healthy-aging-scientists-say</a>

Rebecca SearEHBEA 2024 is going fabulously well, and also it’s possible to have 6 desserts for lunch in France 😃😋 <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/CorrelationIsNotCausation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CorrelationIsNotCausation</a>

Helena Klara JamborEveryone, drop what you are doing - SPURIOUS CORRELATION now has a companion site, SPURIOUS SCHOLAR - that WRITES AN ACADEMIC PAPER based on the spurious correlation! Because "if p < 0.05, why not publish?" 😂 <a href="https://tylervigen.com/spurious-scholar" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://tylervigen.com/spurious-scholar</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Academic</a> publishing <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CorrelationIsNotCausation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CorrelationIsNotCausation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DataScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DataScience</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DataViz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DataViz</a>

Court Cantrell will not comply<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@bytebro" class="u-url mention">@bytebro</a> <a href="https://beige.party/@RickiTarr" class="u-url mention">@RickiTarr</a> Oh sweet RBG preserve us, there needs to be an ENTIRE TWO-SEMESTER COURSE on this concept in high schools!<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CorrelationIsNotCausation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CorrelationIsNotCausation</a>

Your Autistic Life FR/EN/ESDoctors have discovered that all the people on statins are at risk of a heart attack!Dump your statins, now!<a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/statins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#statins</a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#medicine</a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/doctors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#doctors</a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/satire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#satire</a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/CorrelationIsNotCausation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CorrelationIsNotCausation</a>

Your Autistic Life FR/EN/ES"Mice eating less of specific amino acid — overrepresented in diet of obese people — live longer, healthier"From the article: "Isoleucine is plentiful in foods including eggs, dairy, soy protein and many kinds of meat."😱 OMG! We have to stop eating eggs, dairy, soy protein, and many kinds of meat.We have a special diet just for this!Also, from the article:"'We can’t just switch everyone to a low-isoleucine diet,' Lamming says."🤔 Watch us confuse correlation and causation, put our fingers in our ears, and ignore this inconvenient comment.<a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/USNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USNews</a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/isoleucine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#isoleucine</a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/diet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#diet</a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/WeightLoss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WeightLoss</a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/CorrelationIsNotCausation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CorrelationIsNotCausation</a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/correlation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#correlation</a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/causation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#causation</a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/SnakeOilSalesmen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SnakeOilSalesmen</a> <a href="https://news.wisc.edu/mice-eating-less-of-specific-amino-acid-overrepresented-in-diet-of-obese-people-live-longer-healthier/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://news.wisc.edu/mice-eating-less-of-specific-amino-acid-overrepresented-in-diet-of-obese-people-live-longer-healthier/</a>

Your Autistic Life FR/EN/ESHey, did you know that owning a Ferrari will add years to your lifespan? Go buy a Ferrari, now! :derpface: (Pursuant to this:<a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/@yourautisticlife/110876835767256251" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/@yourautisticlife/110876835767256251</a>)<a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/CorrelationIsNotCausation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CorrelationIsNotCausation</a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/Ferrari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ferrari</a>

Your Autistic Life FR/EN/ES"New study shows 18% productivity decline by those working from home"Color me skeptical. My reasons:1. This "study" is a "working paper" and not peer-reviewed.2. They claim to have accounted for accuracy in the paper, but doing this is notoriously hard. They could easily have made mistakes when they looked at accuracy.(By "accuracy" I mean the accuracy of the data entry. You've gained nothing if you're going faster in the office, but also make more mistakes.)3. Correlation is not causation.4. Correlation is not causation.5. Correlation is not causation.If I had a dime for every crackpot who confuses correlation and causation, I'd be a rich man.Illustration: some study shows that there is a correlation between taking a 30-minute walk per day, and better health. Someone latches onto this and says that everyone should walk 30 minutes per day to improve their health. They did not account for the fact that people who are healthy in the first place are those capable to take a walk every day. Nor do they account for the fact that those people who can afford the walk probably have money. When you have to work two jobs, the walk goes out the window. So it is not the daily walks that make people healthy, it is being healthy and having money that makes people able to take the walks.I'm not at all convinced that there NOT is something else at play in this "study" and that correlation and causation have been confused.I don't have proof of this, only an inkling. I've gone very quickly over the study.<a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/WorkFromHome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WorkFromHome</a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/CorrelationIsNotCausation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CorrelationIsNotCausation</a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/WorkingPaper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WorkingPaper</a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/PeerReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PeerReview</a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/NBER" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NBER</a><a href="https://www.techspot.com/news/99738-new-study-shows-18-decrease-productivity-working-home.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.techspot.com/news/99738-new-study-shows-18-decrease-productivity-working-home.html</a><a href="https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w31515/w31515.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w31515/w31515.pdf</a>

Léo VarnetTired of these studies overstating the results by confusing <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/correlation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#correlation</a> and <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/causation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#causation</a>. A recent <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/PNAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PNAS</a> paper (co-authored by D. Kahneman!) starts with the question "can money buy happiness?"... and does no offer any evidence of a <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/causal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#causal</a> relationship <a href="https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/08/01/studying-average-associations-between-income-and-survey-responses-on-happiness-be-careful-about-deterministic-and-causal-interpretations-that-are-not-supported-by-these-data/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/08/01/studying-average-associations-between-income-and-survey-responses-on-happiness-be-careful-about-deterministic-and-causal-interpretations-that-are-not-supported-by-these-data/</a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/stats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#stats</a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/statistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#statistics</a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/correlationisnotcausation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#correlationisnotcausation</a>

CDCastilloPorque un México sin helado, sería un México sin vissssstimas de tiburón 🦈 😝<a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/correlationisnotcausation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#correlationisnotcausation</a>

IBBoardBBC Radio 2 are parroting the government statistic about how people who have more maths education are paid more.It implies but DOES NOT mean that teaching maths to kids for longer will increase everyone's wages. We'll still under-pay humanities, shop workers, etcIt just means that jobs requiring maths (and associated skills) pay more.<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/CorrelationIsNotCausation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CorrelationIsNotCausation</a>

John Gordon12 Workouts to Try in 2023 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/30/well/workouts-exercises.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/30/well/workouts-exercises.html</a>I hate this: “20 percent of older adults struggle to balance on one leg for 10 seconds or more. What’s more, those who could not do it were twice as likely to die within the next 10 years. Fortunately, there are ways to improve your balance…”<a href="https://appdot.net/tags/correlationisnotcausation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#correlationisnotcausation</a>

Christopher Stewartno wonder why some claim there's a credibility crisis in science...<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAl7jHHuG9E" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAl7jHHuG9E</a><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/covid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#covid</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/canpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#canpoli</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/covid19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#covid19</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/CorrelationIsNotCausation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CorrelationIsNotCausation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/CredibilityCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CredibilityCrisis</a>

Htaggert<a href="https://fosstodon.org/@nicd" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@nicd</a> not sure why this popped on my list but must come and say it’s a typical Fl day but every time I step out- it rains- so… considering the indoor lifestyle for my community’s sake… except for when the crops need rain… I suppose… <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Correlationisnotcausation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Correlationisnotcausation</a>

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