I love when people say "x is heavily correlated with y" as if the strength of an observed correlation is the key to a causality Things can be very 'heavily' correlated and have no causal connection at all!
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There's an entire website dedicated to showing spurious correlations that are incredibly closely tied http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations …pic.twitter.com/LHcGVbixX2
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That's excellent. I quite liked this one, too:https://twitter.com/Datasaurs/status/967927394811219968 …
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