Here for spreading far and wide is (another) graphical reminder of the important distinction between correlation and causation. On correlation, causation, and the “real” cause of autism Created by ...

AI models often rely on “spurious correlations,” making decisions based on unimportant and potentially misleading information. Researchers have now discovered these learned spurious correlations can ...

If you like weird facts, time wasters and thinking critically, then get thee over to Spurious Correlations. Just because drownings from 1999-2009 correlate at a rate of 0.666004 with the number of ...

There's an excellent little new humorous website called Spurious Correlations. Well, OK, humorous perhaps only to economics geeks but humorous all the same. And it's a site that contains a deep and ...

Tyler Vigen’s book, Spurious Correlations, is warm, funny and makes several very important points. According to Vigen, his book is based on dozens of correlations between completely unrelated sets of ...

If you read up on interesting new studies and research, there are four very important words you've likely heard before — correlation is not causation. Just because two sets of data might correlate ...

While thinking about what causes people to treat money differently, behavioural economist M. Keith Chen hit on a fascinating idea. “Why is it that countries with seemingly similar economies and ...

One important question is whether the magnitude of PEH depends on the general BP status of the individual. Greater PEH in individuals with particularly high BP status would offer even more support for ...

Over the weekend, I came across an article via Facebook about the great “root canal cover-up.” The article charges that dentists have known for almost a century that root canals can unleash ...