Post #1829946
2026-04-24 03:26 UTC
Teaching students to not conflate correlation with causation by pointing out absurd assumptions of causality from correlation.
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@JelleWho@lemmy.world 2026-04-24 06:03
My favourite argument is that; The amount of people buying ice creams and the amount of people drowning also looks like curves that follow each other. But less ices creams will not make less people drown. They both go up because of good weather conditions. They do not influence each other.