Psychology / Unit 1 Psych 0064 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Correlation–Causation Error
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The idea
The correlation–causation error treats a measured relationship between two variables as evidence that one causes the other.
In practice
Ice cream sales and drowning deaths rise together every summer, and neither one is producing the other.
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