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correlation & causation #48

Open martinapugliese opened 7 years ago

martinapugliese commented 7 years ago

See calling bullshit on the matter, lecture 3

martinapugliese commented 7 years ago

Spurious correlations http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

martinapugliese commented 7 years ago

fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc

martinapugliese commented 7 years ago

Another example (age at death by musical genre) is in video 4.1 and case studied here