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Is there a way to describe correlation and causation with shorter, more common words? My technical writing brain kicks in during probability and statistics class.

Tom Resing

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Studying correlation. Learned about spurious correlation. Ice cream sales and drowning deaths might be correlated. And it would be wrong to suggest that ice cream causes people to drown. Maybe a third data point drives both, like air temperature. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spuriou...

en.wikipedia.orgSpurious relationship - Wikipedia

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