One of the most interesting things to talk about in math classes is the difference between correlation and causation. For example, there is a correlation between the number of movies Elijah Wood ...

No matter how much you try to hide your age, your skin often gives you away. The fine lines. The dryness. The spots that seem ...

News headlines often compress complex science into a simple storyline: If two things are happening at the same time, one must ...

The rooster thinks he summons the sun because the sunrise always follows his crow. Correlation, at its worst, is a very confident rooster. For decades, our data economy has run on the same illusion: ...

Scientific research and associated studies are a resource to understand the world we live in by providing us with an objective reality. When research is conducted and communicated properly, scientific ...

It’s a familiar moment in math class—students are asked to solve a problem, and some jump in confidently while others freeze, unsure where to begin. When students don’t yet have a clear mental model ...

According to @CathieDWood, the bitcoin (BTC) to gold price correlation has been 0.14 since early 2020, and gold led the last two significant BTC bull runs in the past two major cycles (source: ...

Ever since our ancestors first stood upright and squinted at the horizon, we've been wired to notice patterns. A rustle in the grass might have meant a stalking predator. Dark clouds often meant rain.

For his Spurious Correlations project, Tyler Vigen compares data sets that are the very definition of “correlation is not causation”. For instance, the number of Walmart stores worldwide correlates ...

Both funds charge the same low expense ratio and offer nearly identical dividend yields. VUG has delivered a higher one-year return, while SCHG showed slightly lower volatility and a shallower ...

Ice cream sales and drowning deaths both spike in summer. Should we ban ice cream to save lives? Of course not. Yet this kind of flawed reasoning shapes critical health decisions every day, sometimes ...