Correlation is not causation. Just because two sets of data might correlate with one another doesn’t mean there’s any cause-and-effect relationship between the two. This is wonderfully demonstrated by Harvard Law student Tyler Vigen’s awesome blog, Spurious Correlations.
The concept is pretty simple — find two things that correlate with one another, and present it as though it means something. eg Did you know the number of people who drown by falling into swimming pools correlates with number of films Nicolas Cage has appeared in?
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Some great examples of correlation without causation. A few of these could be discussed at the end of a lesson to get pupils to see that correlation does not imply causation. Thank you for sharing.
Some great examples of correlation without causation. A few of these could be discussed at the end of a lesson to get pupils to see that correlation does not imply causation. Thank you for sharing.
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