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Correlation Is Not Causation: Learn How to Avoid the 5 Traps That Even Pros Fall Into (Bite-Size Stats Book 3)
Lee Baker
ASIN: B07BNQPV5T
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 39

Correlation Is Not Causation.You know it and I know it, and yet we are constantly having to be reminded of it because we can’t seem to help but get it wrong.How many times have you heard someone really smart say something like ‘wow, this correlation has a p-value of 0.000001 so A must be causing B…’?It’s not our fault though – we’re only human. We seek explanation for patterns and events that happen around us, and if something defies logic, we try to find a reason why it might make sense. If something doesn’t add up, we make it up.OK, so if correlation does not necessarily imply causation, there must be a reason for that, and there must be something that is causing what we observe. That is what this book is all about.If we discover a correlation between a pair of variables there are five alternatives to one being the direct cause of the other, and we’ll unmask all five in this ...
Amazon Rating:
4.5 stars from 12 ratings