The correlation is also way to large to be plausible. It is a sign that this is a confound (or fraud).
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It's a confound (but to be fair no one said it was causal) combined with inflated Rsquared from the averaging.
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To be fair to the person who created this, I have since been told by
@synapse101 that it's being used as an example of a thing to not do.
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Exactly. There's another famous one with Nicholas Cage films and people drowning in swimming pool IIRC.
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British researcher who presented a bunch of risk factor correlates for overweight/obesity. Used this to show correlation =/= causation...
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Ah, nice! Fair enough I guess. Without context, this was disturbing to see.
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That should serve as a reminder that correlation isn't causation.
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Lol,I think "age" is likely the cause of both.
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