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#correlationisnotcausation

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A.Stringer<p>"Reducing the issue to isolated <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/variables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>variables</span></a>, where the solution might appear to be to introduce a new <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/policy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>policy</span></a> (like banning <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/smartphones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>smartphones</span></a>) follows a technocratic logic that could turn <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/goodhealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>goodhealth</span></a> into a matter for experts.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Youngpeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Youngpeople</span></a> were becoming more anxious long before <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialmedia</span></a> – here’s the evidence<br><a href="https://theconversation.com/young-people-were-becoming-more-anxious-long-before-social-media-heres-the-evidence-243738#Echobox=1736884297" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/young-peop</span><span class="invisible">le-were-becoming-more-anxious-long-before-social-media-heres-the-evidence-243738#Echobox=1736884297</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/interpretingdata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>interpretingdata</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/correlationisnotcausation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>correlationisnotcausation</span></a> <br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/mentalhealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mentalhealth</span></a></p>
Potung Thul<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://thecanadian.social/@MostlyHarmless" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>MostlyHarmless</span></a></span></p><p>Oh, this one is way too precious not to have <a href="https://toot.io/tags/AltText" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AltText</span></a>! Let me <a href="https://toot.io/tags/Alt4You" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alt4You</span></a>.</p><p>Single panel comic:<br>Teacher points to main point of lesson written on blackboard:<br>"Every single person who confuses correlation and causation ends up dying. "</p><p><a href="https://toot.io/tags/CorrelationIsNotCausation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorrelationIsNotCausation</span></a></p>
Rebecca Sear<p>EHBEA 2024 is going fabulously well, and also it’s possible to have 6 desserts for lunch in France 😃😋 <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/CorrelationIsNotCausation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorrelationIsNotCausation</span></a></p>
Helena Klara Jambor<p>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 &lt; 0.05, why not publish?" 😂 </p><p><a href="https://tylervigen.com/spurious-scholar" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tylervigen.com/spurious-schola</span><span class="invisible">r</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Academic</span></a> publishing <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CorrelationIsNotCausation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorrelationIsNotCausation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DataScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataScience</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DataViz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataViz</span></a></p>
Court Cantrell will not comply<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@bytebro" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bytebro</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://beige.party/@RickiTarr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>RickiTarr</span></a></span> Oh sweet RBG preserve us, there needs to be an ENTIRE TWO-SEMESTER COURSE on this concept in high schools!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CorrelationIsNotCausation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorrelationIsNotCausation</span></a></p>
Léo Varnet<p>Tired of these studies overstating the results by confusing <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/correlation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>correlation</span></a> and <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/causation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>causation</span></a>. A recent <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/PNAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PNAS</span></a> paper (co-authored by D. Kahneman!) starts with the question "can money buy happiness?"... and does no offer any evidence of a <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/causal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>causal</span></a> relationship <a href="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/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu</span><span class="invisible">/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/</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/stats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stats</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/statistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>statistics</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/correlationisnotcausation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>correlationisnotcausation</span></a></p>
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