Clearing Up Confusion Between Correlation And Causation

Thursday, September 25, 2014 - 07:50 in Earth & Climate

An example of unidirectional cause and effect: bad weather means umbrella sales rise, but buying umbrellas won't make it rain. Credit: Mariusz Olszewski/Flickr, CC BY-NC-NDBy Jonathan Borwein (Jon), University of Newcastle and Michael Rose, University of Newcastle read more

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