#correlationisnotcausation — Public Fediverse posts
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Thanks to TikTok, they reckon, the average length of a pop song is down to 3 minutes 12 seconds. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-052ab668-403d-416f-b5a6-c5692313b9b4 #CorrelationIsNotCausation
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Yet another study about how "ultraprocessed foods" (UPF) will kill us.
I am very sceptical of all such studies. The definition of UPF seems rather arbitrary, but mostly, if you were trying to define a food group that maximised the chances of confounding by lifestyle and socioeconomic factors in any analysis, I'm pretty sure it would look much like the definition we have.
It's probably being poor that kills you, not UPF.
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Correlation 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. #Science #CorrelationIsNotCausation #FunFact
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Neeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!
Niet meegedaan aan de Dam-tot-Damloop!!! En nu heeft er een Ethiopiër gewonnen!
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"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 (@latimes). Is it any mystery that every time a newspaper says "trust us!," I go 🙄.
#LATimes #CorrelationIsNotCausation #correlation #causation #clickbait #newspapers #journalism #ShittyJournalism #trust #distrust
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EHBEA 2024 is going fabulously well, and also it’s possible to have 6 desserts for lunch in France 😃😋 #CorrelationIsNotCausation
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Everyone, 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?" 😂
https://tylervigen.com/spurious-scholar
#Academic publishing #CorrelationIsNotCausation #DataScience
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@bytebro @RickiTarr Oh sweet RBG preserve us, there needs to be an ENTIRE TWO-SEMESTER COURSE on this concept in high schools!
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"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.
#WorkFromHome #CorrelationIsNotCausation #WorkingPaper #PeerReview #NBER
https://www.techspot.com/news/99738-new-study-shows-18-decrease-productivity-working-home.html
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w31515/w31515.pdf
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Tired of these studies overstating the results by confusing #correlation and #causation. A recent #PNAS paper (co-authored by D. Kahneman!) starts with the question "can money buy happiness?"... and does no offer any evidence of a #causal relationship 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/ #stats #statistics #correlationisnotcausation
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BBC 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, etc
It just means that jobs requiring maths (and associated skills) pay more.
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no wonder why some claim there's a credibility crisis in science...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAl7jHHuG9E
#covid #canpoli #covid19 #CorrelationIsNotCausation #CredibilityCrisis
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no wonder why some claim there's a credibility crisis in science...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAl7jHHuG9E
#covid #canpoli #covid19 #CorrelationIsNotCausation #CredibilityCrisis
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no wonder why some claim there's a credibility crisis in science...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAl7jHHuG9E
#covid #canpoli #covid19 #CorrelationIsNotCausation #CredibilityCrisis
