Correlation vs causation

correlation

Still not convinced that US spending on science, space, and technology correlates with suicides by hanging, strangulation and suffocation? Or that the number of people who drowned by falling into a swimming-pool highly correlates with the number of films Nicolas Cage appeared in? Check Spurious Correlations, a website that teaches you to understand the difference between correlation and causation!

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