Correlation CAN Imply Causation! | Statistics Misconceptions
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A common misconception in statistics is to think that correlation implies causation – like,if more tall people have cats, you might think that means being tall makes people more likelyto get a cat.However, simply knowing a correlation between height and cat ownership can’t tell us whichway the causality goes – it may instead be that having a cat causes people to growtaller – or perhaps the real cause is something else altogether, like that the people andcats live on two separate islands, one a lush paradise with enough food for growing talland feeding pet cats, and the other a wasteland that limits both height and cat ownership.The point of examples like this is that noticing a correlation between two things doesn’timply that one of those things causes the oth...
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A common misconception in statistics is to think that correlation implies causation – like,if more tall people have cats, you might think that means being tall makes people more likelyto get a cat.However, simply knowing a correlation between height and cat ownership can’t tell us whichway the causality goes – it may instead be that having a cat causes people to growtaller – or perhaps the real cause is something else altogether, like that the people andcats live on two separate islands, one a lush paradise with enough food for growing talland feeding pet cats, and the other a wasteland that limits both height and cat ownership.The point of examples like this is that noticing a correlation between two things doesn’timply that one of those things causes the oth...
